Definitions for goosander

goosander goos·an·der

Spelling: [goo-san-der]
IPA: /guˈsæn dər/

Goosander is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 603 anagrams from letters in goosander (adegnoors).

Definitions for goosander

noun

  1. a common merganser, Mergus merganser, of Eurasia and North America.
  2. any merganser.

Origin of goosander

1615-25; alteration of gossander; perhaps blend of goose and obsolete bergander shelduck (

Examples for goosander

A name for the goosander (Mergus merganser) in immature plumage.

The goosander, in our islands, is as yet only known to breed in a few localities in the Highlands.

The females and young birds of the goosander and Merganser are popularly called Dun-divers.

Smew, smū, n. a bird of the family Anatid, in the same genus as the goosander and mergansers.

This evidently refers to the goosander, which as he says in another place most answers to the Merganser.

The goosander is an even more handsome bird than the Red-breasted Merganser, and is the largest species in the present sub-family.

Liguli live some days in the goosander, but they do not maintain their position.

In its habits and in the haunts it frequents, the goosander very closely resembles its smaller ally.

A brood of the goosander or red merganser, the young not yet able to fly, were the occasion of some spirited rowing.

The habits of the goosander and Merganser are so much alike that further detail is unnecessary.

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