teal

Meanings

Noun

• Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
• A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan.

Adjective

• Having a bluish-green colour

Origin

• , Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz, of unknown ultimate origin, with no cognates outside of Germanic. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923.