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mer·gan·ser

(mər-găn′sər)

Any of various fish-eating diving ducks primarily of the genus Mergus, having a slim hooked bill. Also called sheldrake.

[New Latin : Latin mergus, diver (from mergere, to plunge) + Latin ānser, goose; see ghans- in Indo-European roots.]

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merganser

(mɜːˈɡænsə)

n, pl -sers or -ser

(Animals) any of several typically crested large marine diving ducks of the genus Mergus, having a long slender hooked bill with serrated edges. Also called: sawbill See also goosander

[C18: from New Latin, from Latin mergus waterfowl, from mergere to plunge + anser goose]

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mer•gan•ser

(mərˈgæn sər)

n., pl. -sers, (esp. collectively) -ser.

any of several fish-eating diving ducks of the genera Mergus and Lophodytes, having a narrow bill serrated at the edges.

Also called goosander.

[1745–55; < New Latin, = Latin merg(us) kind of aquatic bird (compare mergere to plunge, immerse) + ānser goose]

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Noun

merganser - large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges

fish duck, sawbill, sheldrake

sea duck - any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider; scoter; merganser

genus Mergus, Mergus - mergansers

goosander, Mergus merganser - common merganser of Europe and North America

American merganser, Mergus merganser americanus - common North American diving duck considered a variety of the European goosander

Mergus serrator, red-breasted merganser - widely distributed merganser of America and Europe

Mergus albellus, smew - smallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern Eurasia

hooded merganser, hooded sheldrake, Lophodytes cucullatus - small North American duck with a high circular crest on the male's head

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