English word senses marked with lifeform category "Mergansers"
Parent categories: Ducks, Anatids, Poultry, Freshwater birds, Birds, Livestock, Vertebrates, Agriculture, Animals, Chordates, Applied sciences, Lifeforms, Sciences, Life, Nature
Total 18 word senses
- Auckland Islands merganser (Noun) An extinct species of merganser, Mergus australis.
- dun diver (Noun) The goosander or merganser.
- goosander (Noun) A merganser, Mergus merganser, of the northern hemisphere. They eat fish and are common on lakes and rivers.
- harle (Noun) A bird, the red-breasted merganser.
- hooded merganser (Noun) A species of fish-eating duck, Lophodytes cucullatus.
- merganser (Noun) Any of various diving ducks of the genera Mergus or Lophodytes, which feed on fish and have a sharply serrated bill.
- red-breasted merganser (Noun) A species of diving duck, Mergus serrator.
- sawbill (Noun) The red-breasted merganser.
- scaly-sided merganser (Noun) Mergus squamatus, an endangered species of merganser found in eastern Asia
- sea robin (Noun) A bird, the red-breasted merganser.
- sheldrake (Noun) An Old World duck of the genus Tadorna (shelducks).; A male shelduck.
- smeath (Noun) A bird, the smew.
- smee (Noun) The pintail, wigeon, pochard, or smew.
- smew (Noun) A small compact diving duck, Mergellus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes.
- snowl (Noun) The hooded merganser.
- spikebill (Noun) A hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus).
- spikebill (Noun) A marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa).
- velvetbreast (Noun) The goosander (Mergus merganser).
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