1.Either of two wild, freshwater ducks( Anas americana of North America or A. penelope of Europe) having a grayish or brownish back and a white belly and wing coverts. The European widgeon has a reddish-brown head and creamy crown, and the American widgeon has a shiny white crown.
2.Detail of young leaves and growing point; many leaves reduced to bare midrib or narrow green corrugated residue of lamina; youngest leaves and growing point brown and dead; large green stipular lamina around crown.
3.small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine; chocolate brown bark in plates and short needles in bunches of 5; crown conic but becoming rough and twisted; oldest plant in the world growing to 5000 years in cold semi-desert mountain tops.
