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English cricketer ultimately caught by Germans out for a duck
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merganser
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Word definitions for merganser in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goosander \Goos"an`der\, n. [OE. gossander, a tautological word formed fr. goose + gander. Cf. Merganser .] (Zo["o]l.) A species of merganser ( M. merganser ) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser , dundiver , sawbill , sawneb , shelduck ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of various diving ducks of the genera ''Mergus'' or ''Lophodytes'', which feed on fish and have a sharply serrated bill.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges [syn: fish duck , sawbill , sheldrake ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of duck, 1752, coined in Modern Latin (1550s), from Latin mergus "waterfowl, diver" (from mergere "to dip, immerse;" see merge (v.)) + anser "goose" (see goose (n.)).
Usage examples of merganser.
Wilson snipe, sandhill crane, Gadwall and canvas-back and red-bill Merganser ducks, American widgeon, red-necked grebe, Dunlin sandpiper, red-winged starling, and scores of equally fantastic prey.
During the fall and winter, the refuge is home to thousands of eiders, scoters, and red-breasted mergansers.
Mergellus albellus, it's a Eurasian merganser, and they're only accidental here, but we have a mated pair!
Actually, left to right, they're a merganser, a pintail, and a lesser scaup.
They'd ride out along the ciénaga road and along the verge of the marshes while the sun rose riding up flights of ducks out of the shallows or geese or mergansers that would beat away over the water scattering the haze and rising up would turn to birds of gold in a sun not yet visible from the bolsón floor.
In addition, they had twenty-two pintails which they would sell for a few pennies each to the Negroes living in Frog’s Neck, and a score of mergansers, which no one would eat because they fed on fish.
JoLayne pointed out a pair of wild mergansers in the water and, on the bank, a raccoon prowling.