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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bluish green, blue green, tealnoun

    a blue-green color or pigment

    "they painted it a light shade of bluish green"

  2. tealadjective

    any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America

  3. bluish green, blue-green, cyan, tealadjective

    of a bluish shade of green

Wiktionary

  1. tealnoun

    Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.

  2. tealadjective

    (colour) having a bluish-green colour

  3. Etymology: Probably from an unrecorded word cognate with Middle Dutch teling Middle Low German telink, from *taili. 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.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tealnoun

    A wild fowl.

    Etymology: teelingh, Dutch.

    Some serve for food to us, and some but to feed themselves; amongst the first sort we reckon the dip-chick, coots, teal, wigeon. Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall.

ChatGPT

  1. teal

    Teal is a medium to dark greenish-blue color. It is named after the Eurasian teal, a species of duck with a characteristic dark green colored stripe around its eyes. In color theory, it is generated by mixing blue with green, and it falls between the two in the color spectrum. In addition to its use in design and fashion, it is often associated with certain causes such as raising awareness for ovarian cancer.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tealnoun

    any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings

Wikidata

  1. TEAL

    Tasman Empire Airways Limited was the forerunner of Air New Zealand. It was first registered in Wellington as a limited liability company on 26 April 1940. The shares were originally held by the New Zealand government, Union Airways, BOAC and Qantas.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Teal

    tēl, n. a web-footed water-fowl allied to the duck, but smaller. [Dut. teling, taling.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. teal

    A small species of wild duck, Querquedula crecca.

Suggested Resources

  1. TEAL

    What does TEAL stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the TEAL acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. TEAL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Teal is ranked #3976 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Teal surname appeared 8,937 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Teal.

    78.4% or 7,009 total occurrences were White.
    15.6% or 1,397 total occurrences were Black.
    2.6% or 238 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2% or 185 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.7% or 66 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.4% or 42 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Anagrams for teal »

  1. et al.

  2. ETLA

  3. late

  4. leat

  5. tael

  6. tale

  7. tela

  8. laet

  9. atle

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of teal in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of teal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of teal in a Sentence

  1. Veronica LaFemina:

    The Teal Pumpkin Project is an easy way to make a big impact in your community. Food allergies can be life-threatening, and they affect 1 in 13 children in the United States. We are thrilled to see so many people embracing the Teal Pumpkin Project as a way to ensure kids with food allergies can enjoy a safe, fun Halloween experience just like their friends.

  2. Nick Gulizia:

    Oh, it was awful, one wall was purple, one was yellow and one was teal green. But it kind of made Lucky’s a unique shop, one that was fun to go to, rather than getting beaten down on by fluorescent lights.

  3. Jeremy Dunn:

    My wife and I joke about it all the time, because when I made the initial order of 72 pair of socks she was, let's just say, not that stoked about having that many pairs of teal socks lying around our apartment. But they sold out in the first hour that we posted them on our Instagram accounts.

  4. Richard Bleicher:

    It's sort of akin to trying to differentiate blue from teal from green – there is a bit of subjectivity.

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