NOUN
- large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges
- Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill
How To Use sheldrake In A Sentence
- The British Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake introduced the concepts of Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance in his revolutionary 1981 book A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation.
- -- The _chakwâ_, male, and _chakwî_, female, is the ruddy goose or sheldrake, known to Europeans as the Brâhmanî duck, _Anas casarca_ or _Casarca rutila_. Tales of the Punjab
- Then her soul took the form of a sheldrake and its mate, -- those loving birds which, like the turtle-dove, are always constant, -- and floating on the liquid pools, they mourned all day long the sad fate of the Princess Pepperina. Tales of the Punjab
- Pam, who now works for Dr Sheldrake as a research assistant, also came home at different times of the day and carried a bleeper which was triggered by the doctor when he wanted Pam to go home.
- Or that I can dive down at one side of a Highland loch and come up at the other like a sheldrake? Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
- The sheldrake ducks also have a fleshy growth on the bill. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
- Sheldrakes are today's mergansers, while the Wilson thrush, known today as the veery is only a migrant on the Cape but a resident of New England's woods.
- In a lonesome inlet, a sheldrake, lost from the flock, sitting on the water, rocking silently; American Feuillage
- The British Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake introduced the concepts of Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance in his revolutionary 1981 book A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation.
- It was Deep-water Peter, holding a gun in one hand, and a dead sheldrake in the other. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story