eider

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But I've also embarrassed myself more than once by spilling coffee (or, ahem, some other liquid) on my eider-down duvet.

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A river in Germany, the boundary between Schleswig and Holstein.

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noun

A river in Germany, the boundary between Schleswig and Holstein.

noun

Any of the species of Somateria spp. and Polysticta stelleri or of the seaduck subfamily Merginae, which line their nests with fine down (taken from their own bodies).

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Core meanings and parts of speech for eider.

noun

A river in Germany, the boundary between Schleswig and Holstein.

noun

Any of the species of Somateria spp. and Polysticta stelleri or of the seaduck subfamily Merginae, which line their nests with fine down (taken from their own bodies).

Example sentences

But I've also embarrassed myself more than once by spilling coffee (or, ahem, some other liquid) on my eider-down duvet.

While highly prized, I've decided that eider down is simply not a practical material for either my jackets nor my bedding.

I was excited enough about eider down to plan a vacation largely around it.

When I was at Amazon (pre covid), Eider could've been used for that.

He's in the common name of several animals: Steller's eider, jay, sea eagle, sea cow, and sculpin.

I've never seen a cat kill an eider or goldeneye.

That's pretty horrible - but I skimmed through that and I didn't see any eider ducks (could be wrong though) - they are quite distinctive looking birds.

I'm not in love with emacs eider integration.

Things named after him: Steller's jay, Steller's eider, Steller's sea eagle, Steller's sea cow, Steller's sea lion, and the Stellera genus of flowing plants.

I confess though that I have yet to bear to throw out either my eider down duvet (or, for that matter, my luscious fur coat, guiltily secreted for special occasions in the back closet).

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The extended quote from the Wikipedia page notes some people have died from preparing it improperly Polar explorer Knud Rasmussen's death is attributed to food poisoning by kiviaq.[5][6] In August 2013 several people died in Siorapaluk from eating kiviak that was made from eider rather than auk.