A baldpate duck or similar waterfowl, or dialectal term for certain berries or plants.
Compound of 'bald' and 'berry,' either referring to a berry-picking bird, or a regional plant name, with unclear ultimate origin for the specific plant reference.
This word shows how people used simple descriptive compounds—if something looked bald (smooth, white-topped) and you found it in nature, you just mashed the words together and called it 'baldberry'!
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