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FISH DUCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges
Synonyms:
fish duck; merganser; sawbill; sheldrake
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fish duck" is a kind of...):
sea duck (any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider; scoter; merganser)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fish duck"):
goosander; Mergus merganser (common merganser of Europe and North America)
American merganser; Mergus merganser americanus (common North American diving duck considered a variety of the European goosander)
Mergus serrator; red-breasted merganser (widely distributed merganser of America and Europe)
Mergus albellus; smew (smallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern Eurasia)
hooded merganser; hooded sheldrake; Lophodytes cucullatus (small North American duck with a high circular crest on the male's head)
Holonyms ("fish duck" is a member of...):
genus Mergus; Mergus (mergansers)
