teal
Plural: teals
Noun
- A small, dabbling freshwater duck or a blue-green color.
- a blue-green color or pigment
- any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America
- 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.
- A teal independent.
Adjective Satellite
- of a bluish shade of green
Adj
- Having a bluish-green colour.
Examples
- The short, high-value word TEAL helped me bridge a gap on the Words With Friends board.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling (“teal”) (modern Dutch taling), 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. The Australian political sense derives from the colour teal being intermediate between green (signifying environmentalism) and blue (signifying the conservative Australian Liberal Party).
Synonyms
blue green, blue-green, bluish green, cyan
Scrabble Score: 4
teal: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordteal: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
teal: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary