Definitions for scaups

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Spelling: [skawp]
IPA: /skɔp/

Scaups is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in scaups (acpssu).

Definitions for scaups

noun

  1. any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.

Origin of scaups

1665-75; by ellipsis from scaup duck, probably with Scots, N dial. scaup, scalp mussel bed (of uncertain origin)

Examples for scaups

The scaup Duck is very abundant in Holland during winter, covering the inland seas with immense flocks.

scaup Ducks begin to arrive off our more northern coasts in September, but not until a month later in the south.

The scaup came down the sky in dark masses, giving a rippling purr as they flew.

The scaup Duck arrives at its Arctic breeding-grounds with the break-up of the ice.

In some old charts, particularly by the Dutch, whose name for a headland is kappe, it is also called skape and scaup.

In flight, the dark wings are different from the white-edged wings of scaup.

Another of the sea-ducks, the scaup, is also taken in large numbers in this way.

The food of the scaup Duck consists largely of molluscs, but crustaceans and marine plants are also eaten by this species.

In its habits generally, it very closely resembles the scaup Duck, a species whose company it often keeps.

These ducks are perhaps better known as Blue-bills, than as scaup Ducks.

Word Value for scaups
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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