Goosander

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Chiefly British A fish-eating duck (Mergus merganser), the male of which has a glossy greenish-black head and a white body.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A merganser, Mergus merganser, of the northern hemisphere. They eat fish and are common on lakes and rivers.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See merganser.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as merganser.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. common merganser of Europe and North America
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fish duck    sheldrake    merganser    sawbill   
    Variant
    merganser    dundiver    sawbill    sawneb    shelduck    sheldrake   
     
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