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Merganser

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Noun

1. fish duck, merganser, sawbill, sheldrake

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Merganser

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noun plural -sers or -ser
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

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Merganser

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nounWord forms: plural merˈgansers or merˈganser
any of several fish-eating, diving ducks with a long, slender, serrated bill hooked at the tip and, usually, a crested head, as the large common merganser (Mergus merganser) and the small hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Merganser

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

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