5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Scaup \Scaup\ (sk[add]p), n. [See {Scalp} a bed of oysters or mussels.] 1. A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp. [Scot.] [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) A scaup duck. See below. [1913 Webster] {Scaup duck} (Zool.), any one of several species of northern ducks of the genus {Aythya}, or {Fuligula}. The adult males are, in large part, black. The three North American species are: the greater scaup duck ({Aythya marila}, var. nearctica), called also {broadbill}, {bluebill}, {blackhead}, {flock duck}, {flocking fowl}, and {raft duck}; the lesser scaup duck ({Aythya affinis}), called also {little bluebill}, {river broadbill}, and {shuffler}; the tufted, or ring-necked, scaup duck ({Aythya collaris}), called also {black jack}, {ringneck}, {ringbill}, {ringbill shuffler}, etc. See Illust. of {Ring-necked duck}, under {Ring-necked}. The common European scaup, or mussel, duck ({Aythya marila}), closely resembles the American variety. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Blackhead \Black"head`\, n. (Zool.) The scaup duck. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Broadbill \Broad"bill`\, n. 1. (Zool.) A wild duck ({Aythya marila}, or {Fuligula marila}), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; -- called also {bluebill}, {blackhead}, {raft duck}, and {scaup duck}. See {Scaup duck}. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) The shoveler. See {Shoveler}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: blackhead n : a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin [syn: {comedo}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 56 Moby Thesaurus words for "blackhead": birthmark, bleb, blemish, blister, bulla, check, cicatrix, comedo, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, fault, flaw, freckle, hemangioma, hickey, keloid, kink, lentigo, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rift, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, split, strawberry mark, sty, track, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whitehead
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