Anas

Latin anas (“duck”), from Proto-Italic *anats, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts (“duck”).

Anas f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Anatidae – various species of dabbling duck.

• Some have split Anas, with the wigeons and close relatives now being placed in the revived genus Mareca.

• (genus): Mareca

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Chordata - phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Reptilia - class; Aves - subclass; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Anseriformes - order; Anatidae - family; Anatinae - subfamily

• (genus): Anas platyrhynchos (common mallard) - type species; Anas acuta - (northern pintail), Anas albogularis, Anas americana (American wigeon),Anas andium, Anas aucklandica (Auckland teal), Anas bahamensis, Anas bernieri, Anas capensis (Cape teal), Anas carolinensis (green-winged teal), Anas castanea (chestnut teal), Anas chathamica (Chatham duck, Chatham Island duck), Anas clypeata (northern shoveler), Anas crecca (common teal or Eurasian teal), Anas cyanoptera (cinnamon teal), Anas diazi (Mexican duck), Anas discors (blue-winged teal), Anas eatoni, Anas falcata, (falcated duck), Anas flavirostris (yellow-billed teal), Anas fulvigula, Anas georgica (yellow-billed pintail), Anas gibberifrons, Anas gracilis (grey teal), Anas hottentota, Anas laysanensis, Anas melleri, Anas nesiotis (Campbell teal), Anas penelope (Eurasian wigeon), Anas poecilorhyncha (Indian spot-billed duck), Anas puna, Anas querquedula (garganey), Anas rhynchotis (Australasian shoveler), Anas rubripes (American back duck), Anas sibiliatrix (Chiloe wigeon), Anas sparsa, Anas strepera (now Mareca strepera, gadwall), Anas superciliosa (Pacific black duck), Anas undulata, Anas versicolor, Anas wyvilliana, Anas zonorhyncha (eastern spot-billed duck) - species

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• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.naːs/

Anās m (genitive Anae); first declension

1. A river in Spain; modern Guadiana.

First declension, masculine Greek type with nominative singular in -ās.

• Anas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Anas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Anas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Anas in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Anas in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly