TEAL

PRONUNCIATION: (teel)

MEANING: noun: 1. Any of the various species of small dabbling ducks. 2. Greenish blue color.
adjective: Of greenish blue color.

ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English tele. The color is named after the patches of this shade on the teal. Earliest documented use: 1314.
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TERL - hard work in Brooklyn

TU-AL - second-person-singular-familiar pronoun in Southern France

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