noun
large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges
• Hypernyms: ↑sea duck
• Hyponyms:
↑goosander, ↑Mergus merganser, ↑American merganser, ↑Mergus merganser americanus, ↑red-breasted merganser, ↑Mergus serrator, ↑smew, ↑Mergus albellus, ↑hooded merganser, ↑hooded sheldrake, ↑Lophodytes cucullatus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Mergus, ↑genus Mergus
* * *
noun* * *
Informal.
merganser.
[1855-60, Amer.]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.