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# teal

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

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

## Everyday

1. Teal is a blue-green colour, darker than turquoise. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teal/#m2)

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

## On Mova

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