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Callop vs Calloo - What's the difference?

callop | calloo |

As nouns the difference between callop and calloo

is that callop is an australian freshwater fish, ; the golden perch or yellowbelly while calloo is the long-tailed duck, clangula hyemalis , an arctic sea duck.

callop

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • an Australian freshwater fish, ; the golden perch or yellowbelly

    • References

    * www.nativefish.asn.au

    calloo

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis , an Arctic sea duck.
  • * 1989 , (Keith Bosley), translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala , IV:
    • This is how the luckless feel / how the calloos think— / like hard snow under a ridge / like water in a deep well.
  • * 2012 , Richard Williamson, West Sussex Gazette , 8 Jan 2012:
    • The Scots called it the ‘wild calloo ’ from the unearthly call it had which seemed almost to bewitch fisher-folk hunting for herring in calm autumn nights off the Scottish Isles.