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Eider

//ˈaɪdɚ// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A river in Germany, the boundary between Schleswig and Holstein.
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the species of Somateria spp. and Polysticta stelleri or of the seaduck subfamily Merginae, which line their nests with fine down (taken from their own bodies).
  2. 2
    duck of the Northern Hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females wordnet

Etymology

From Icelandic æðar, genitive of æðr, probably reaching English via Swedish eider (now ejder), from a North Germanic root.

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