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Translation for 'drake' from English to Polish

drake

kaczor {m}ptakzool.

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Drake Passage

Cieśnina {f} Drake'ageogr.

• Cieśnina {f} Drake'a = Drake Passage

• "Ephemera danica", the green drake or green drake mayfly, is a species of mayfly in the genus "Ephemera".
• In many species, the call of the drake (male) is different from that of the hen (female).
• The name "mallard" originally referred to any wild drake, and it is sometimes still used this way.
• The breeding male (drake) is a striking bird with a mask of green feathers around its eyes and a cream-colored cap running from the crown of his head to his bill.
• The breeding drake has an iridescent dark green head, white breast and chestnut belly and flanks.

• Crowell's preening pintail drake and Canada goose decoys share the world record at $1.13 million dollars.
• In 2017, the company introduced lightweight carbon fibre drake discs for bicycles. They were claimed to be the lightest discs available at between 32 and 70 grams dependent of size.
• Kachur (...) is a Ukrainian surname meaning "drake" (male duck). Alternative transliterations include Kaczur, Kačur, Katchur, Katchour and Katschur. It is a cognate of the Polish surname Kaczor.
• is a Polish-language surname meaning "drake" (male duck).
• The drake has a low breathy call, and the hen a quiet trilling coo.

• The term "mulard" or "moulard" is generally reserved for offspring where the parental drake is a Muscovy and the duck is a Pekin.
• This species can be distinguished from other scoters, apart from common scoter, by the lack of white anywhere on the drake, and the more extensive pale areas on the female.
• Lamps are of brass and glass in the shape of a drake.
• On land, the minion was used in the English Civil War as an anti-personnel weapon and was known as a "minion drake", derived either from the Latin "draco" (dragon) or from Sir Francis Drake.
• Izaak Walton describes the use of mayflies for catching trout in his 1653 book "The Compleat Angler"; for example, he names the "Green-drake" for use as a natural fly, and "duns" (mayfly subimagos) as artificial flies.

• The Abacot Ranger's standard weight is [...] for a drake (or male) and [...] for a duck (or female).