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[edit]![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Aythya_affinis_female1.jpg/220px-Aythya_affinis_female1.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]See scalp (“a bed of oysters or mussels”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /skɔːp/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːp
Noun
[edit]scaup (plural scaups or scaup)
- Any of three species of small diving duck in the genus Aythya.
- 2009 March 29, Deborah Baldwin, “A Waterside Village With a Big-City Backdrop”, in New York Times[1]:
- Or spot gaggles of Canada geese, ducks and scaups flying over schools of bluefish.
- (Scotland) Alternative form of scalp (“a bed or stratum of shellfish”)
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]diving-duck
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See also
[edit]scaup on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Aythya on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Aythya marila on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Aythya affinis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Aythya novaeseelandiae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Aythya on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Aythya marila on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Aythya affinis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Aythya novaeseelandiae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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- en:Ducks