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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Animal Population Groups > Animals, Domestic > Poultry > Ducks
Food and Beverages > Food > Meat > Poultry > Ducks
... > Physiological Phenomena > Diet, Food, and Nutrition > Food > Meat > Poultry > Ducks
... > Eukaryota > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Birds > Poultry > Ducks
... > Eukaryota > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Birds > Anseriformes > Ducks

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Ducks  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • diseases in domestic ducks: coordinate with POULTRY DISEASES; diseases in wild ducks: coordinate with BIRD DISEASES

Scope note

  • A water bird in the order Anseriformes (subfamily Anatinae (true ducks)) with a broad blunt bill, short legs, webbed feet, and a waddling gait.

History note

  • 68

In other languages

  • ankat

    Finnish

  • ankka
  • sorsa
  • sorsat
  • Ankor

    Swedish

  • Änder

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004372

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