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Merganser

noun
1.
Large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges.  Synonyms: fish duck, sawbill, sheldrake.



Related searches:
American merganser
Mergus merganser
Mergus merganser americanus
hooded merganser
red-breasted merganser


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"Merganser" Quotes from Famous Books



... first one and then the other paddle-box into the water; as we got close up to them they rose, but only flew a short distance and pitched again in the white water. They seem to me to keep the sea better than the Red-breasted Merganser—at least, I have not seen them seek shelter so much ...
— Birds of Guernsey (1879) • Cecil Smith


Words linked to "Merganser" :   genus Mergus, Mergus, sea duck, Lophodytes cucullatus, hooded sheldrake, goosander, smew, Mergus serrator, Mergus albellus


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