"duck" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Bombay duck (which is some sort of fish) seems to be like a double fault, but just think of all those dishes on the menus of your favorite restaurants.
- A Bombay duck is actually a fish.
- The most famous member of this genus is the Bombay duck, much appreciated in Indian cuisine, especially in the area around Mumbai.
- I shall have curry; they give you a very good Bombay duck here.
- He eats whatever he's offered: half a beetle, Bombay duck, a birthday cake in the shape of a Royal Navy destroyer.
- Sir, sir," cried Stephen, waving a Bombay duck, "how can you speak so?
- Colaba was known for the variety of fishes - the bombil (Bombay duck), rawas, halwa, turtles, crabs, prawns and lobsters.
- It feeds mainly on small bony fishes, including anchovies, codlets, burrowing gobies, and Bombay ducks.
- In Bombay, the local English speakers then called it so, but it was eventually corrupted into "Bombay duck".
- Here, finally, we met Bombay duck, a long, slim, slightly mushy local white fish (local name: bhombil or bhoomla).
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