torrent duck

noun

Definitions

  1. A species of duck, Merganetta armata, found near fast-flowing rivers in the Andes.

    • The mountain lakes are fed by streams that are frozen in winter but change overnight into raging torrents – the turbulent habitat of the torrent duck.

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