Definitions for merganser

merganser mer·gan·ser

Spelling: [mer-gan-ser]
IPA: /mərˈgæn sər/

Merganser is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 375 anagrams from letters in merganser (aeegmnrrs).

Definitions for merganser

noun

  1. any of several fish-eating diving ducks of the subfamily Merginae, having a narrow bill hooked at the tip and serrated at the edges.

Origin of merganser

1745-55; New Latin, equivalent to Latin merg(us) diver, a kind of water bird + ānser goose

Examples for merganser

There was a flock of red-breasted mergansers (merganser serrator) on a pool nearby.

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

For all the splendor of his plumage, the merganser was not conspicuous where he sat.

The merganser is a regular visitor, in winter, to our coasts and inland lakes.

The merganser (Mergus, from mergere, to submerge) is sometimes separated from the Ducks.

It is of elegant form, smaller than the merganser, being only fifteen inches in length.

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

Fish is the chief diet of the merganser, for which reason its flesh is rank and unpalatable.

"Well—it's called a merganser in the books," said Mr. Kincaid.

The flight of the merganser is rapid and prolonged, without reaching any great elevation.

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