Akademik

Aix

noun

wood duck and mandarin duck

• Syn: ↑genus Aix

• Hypernyms: ↑bird genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Anatidae, ↑family Anatidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑wood duck, ↑summer duck, ↑wood widgeon, ↑Aix sponsa, ↑mandarin duck, ↑Aix galericulata

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\\ˈīks\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, a water fowl

: a genus of short-legged perching ducks having brilliant multicolored plumage in the male and including the mandarin duck and the wood duck (sense 1)

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aiver, aix

obs. or dial. forms of aver, axe.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.