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Smew

Smew \Smew\, n. [Perhaps for ice-mew.] (Zo["o]l.)

  1. small European merganser ( Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun.

  2. The hooded merganser. [Local, U.S.]

Wiktionary
smew

n. A small compact diving duck, ''Mergus albellus'', that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes.

WordNet
smew

n. smallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern Eurasia [syn: Mergus albellus]

Wikipedia
Smew

The smew (Mergellus albellus) is a species of duck, and is the only living member of the genus Mergellus. Mergellus is a diminutive of Mergus and albellus is from Latin albus "white". This genus is closely related to Mergus and is sometimes included in it, though it might be closer to the goldeneyes (Bucephala). The smew has interbred with the common goldeneye (B. clangula).

A seaduck fossil from the Middle Miocene shows that birds similar to smew existed up to 13 million years ago. The extant species dates back to the Pleistocene.

Usage examples of "smew".

At pretty much the same time as above, Lillith Smew ordered Martin Milvin to turn off his light and go to sleep if he knew what was good for him.

I first met Lillith Smew, but something had been added that made it even less tolerable.

And unless we got a copycat, that same person got nastier and nastier till the Smew woman died.

Buzz and Martin Milvin were poisoned and Lillith Smew may have been murdered?

Lieutenant General Bell sat in a carriage as the Army of Franklin tramped over a wood bridge to the northern bank of the Smew River.

The Smew ran through rough, heavily wooded country in northern Franklin.

Roaring with fury, it flew off toward the Smew River, off toward the southrons.

After trying and failing to make a stand at the Smew River, Lieutenant General Bell seemed to have abandoned all hope of holding the southrons.

The blade sliced through the lengths of tough ox smew as if they had been strips of the softest noodle.

She looked at him openly, honestly, letting him see her appreciation of the powerful interplay of tendon and smew, of the masculine strength revealed in the flex and flow of muscles beneath his skin and of the potency she had so recently enjoyed.

He said he had hung many nesting boxes there and started a thriving colony of smew and goldeneye, and he did not want them disturbed.