Scientific Definition of a Duck

**ROFL Copter** · March 15, 2009, 11:26 AM

Anyone know what it is?

**Nikos** · March 15, 2009, 11:49 AM

A member of the Family Anatidae.
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Anseriforms
Family:Anatidae

It includes Ducks, geese and swans. What species of duck were you referring too?

**The Fishman** · March 15, 2009, 04:05 PM

Well, it's got to walk like one and quack like one for a start.

**Acco** · March 17, 2009, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by Nikos

Family:Anatidae

Partim.

Anyway, to the original post, what do you mean by 'scientific'? What specific species of duck did you have in mind? There isn't just one species with the name duck; in fact there are five sub-families of ducks: dendrocygninae, oxyurinae, anatinae, aythyinae and merginae.

**C.M.** · March 15, 2009, 04:24 PM

It has the same weight as a witch.

**OccamR** · March 15, 2009, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by C.M.

It has the same weights as a witch.

I knew someone was going to say it!

**Larry Blackmon's Codpiece** · March 15, 2009, 08:34 PM

I don't get it...

**Edratman** · March 15, 2009, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by failspy

I don't get it...

It is a reference to some absurd medieval test to determine if a woman was a witch.

**Larry Blackmon's Codpiece** · March 15, 2009, 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by Edratman

It is a reference to some absurd medieval test to determine if a woman was a witch.

Oh yeah Monty Python...groan.

**Nikos** · March 15, 2009, 09:34 PM

Sigh, I think this is a joke thread.

**ROFL Copter** · March 15, 2009, 10:43 PM

Hehe, good ol' medieval.

**Romios** · March 16, 2009, 11:28 AM

1. Any of various wild or domesticated swimming birds of the family Anatidae, characteristically having a broad, flat bill, short legs, and webbed feet.
2. A female duck.
3. The flesh of a duck used as food.
4. Slang A person, especially one thought of as peculiar.
5. Chiefly British A dear. Often used in the plural with a singular verb.

Ase scientific as it gets.