Scaup is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 70 anagrams from letters in scaup (acpsu).
1665-75; by ellipsis from scaup duck, probably with Scots, N dial. scaup, scalp mussel bed (of uncertain origin)
The scaup Duck arrives at its Arctic breeding-grounds with the break-up of the ice.
The scaup Duck is very abundant in Holland during winter, covering the inland seas with immense flocks.
Another of the sea-ducks, the scaup, is also taken in large numbers in this way.
In its habits generally, it very closely resembles the scaup Duck, a species whose company it often keeps.
The scaup came down the sky in dark masses, giving a rippling purr as they flew.
These ducks are perhaps better known as Blue-bills, than as scaup Ducks.
In flight, the dark wings are different from the white-edged wings of scaup.
The food of the scaup Duck consists largely of molluscs, but crustaceans and marine plants are also eaten by this species.
scaup Ducks begin to arrive off our more northern coasts in September, but not until a month later in the south.
In some old charts, particularly by the Dutch, whose name for a headland is kappe, it is also called skape and scaup.
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