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# teal

«teal» in Mova's school dictionary: **a blue-green colour, darker than turquoise** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (teal, teals — the duck; plural often teal); noun (teal — the colour, uncountable); adjective (teal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Teal is a blue-green colour, darker than turquoise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teal/#m1)

2) A teal is a small wild duck; the males often have a green stripe on the head and wing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teal/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is mostly a colour word for clothes, paint, school uniforms and art. In nature studies it names a small freshwater duck seen on ponds and marshes. Phrases: teal blue, dark teal, a flock of teal.

### examples

- She wore a teal jumper to the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teal/#x1)
- Teal is a mix of blue and green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teal/#x2)
- We painted the sea teal in our art lesson. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teal/#x3)
- A pair of teal landed on the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teal/#x4)
- The teal is one of the smallest ducks in Britain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teal/#x5)
- My new pencil case is teal with silver stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teal/#x6)
- Dark teal looks good on the classroom wall display. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teal/#x7)

### note

As a colour it is uncountable (a nice teal, but not usually teals). For the duck the plural is often the same: a flock of teal. Not to be confused with teel or with steal/steel.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «teal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.