teal Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a blue-green color or pigment
    bluish green; blue green.
    • they painted it a light shade of bluish green
  2. noun any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America
  3. adjective satellite of a bluish shade of green
    bluish green; blue-green; cyan.

WordNet

Teal noun
Etymology
OE. tele; akin to D. teling a generation, production, teal, telen to breed, produce, and E. till to cultivate. The English word probably once meant, a brood or flock. See Till to cultivate.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings. ✍ The common European teal (Anas crecca) and the European blue-winged teal, or garganey (A. querquedula or A. circia), are well-known species. In America the blue-winged teal (A. discors), the green-winged teal (A. Carolinensis), and the cinnamon teal (A. cynaoptera) are common species, valued as game birds. See Garganey.

Webster 1913