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# mallard

noun (a mallard, mallards or mallard)

«mallard» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A mallard is the most common wild duck; the male (drake) has a shiny green head, a white ring round the neck and a grey body, and the female is speckled brown. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mallard/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science and nature lessons it is the duck children see on ponds and rivers in Britain, Ireland, North America, Australia and NZ; most farm ducks come from mallards. In history, «Mallard» is also the name of a famous British steam train that set the world speed record for steam in 1938 (126 mph). Phrases: «a pair of mallards», «mallard ducklings».

### Examples

- A mallard swam across the pond. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mallard/#x1)
- The male mallard has a bright green head. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mallard/#x2)
- The female mallard is brown so she is hidden on the nest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mallard/#x3)
- Mallard ducklings followed their mother in a line. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mallard/#x4)
- Don't feed the mallards bread — give them peas or oats instead. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mallard/#x5)
- The steam engine Mallard is the fastest steam locomotive. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mallard/#x6)

### Note

Plural: mallards, or mallard for a group (like «fish»). Pronounced «MAL-ard». The male is a drake, the female a duck, the young are ducklings. Bread is not good for ducks; it can make them ill and pollute the water.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mallard» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mallard/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mallard» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mallard.html) on Mova free.