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hooded merganser

hooded merganser noun: a species of fish-eating duck, Lophodytes cucullatus.

hooded merganser: a species of fish-eating duck, Lophodytes cucullatus
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Noun

hooded merganser (plural hooded mergansers)

  1. A species of fish-eating duck, Lophodytes cucullatus.
    • While scoping out the flyways and byways of our city for nature news this week (within my family I refer to this rather solitary activity as bunny-hunting — they know what I mean) I came across a dozen or so hooded mergansers at Humber Bay Park East.2014 December 4, Margaret Bream, “Wild in the City: hooded mergansers”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, O.N.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2015
    Synonyms:
    hooded sheldrake, hootamaganzy, hoodie, snowl

Synonyms of hooded merganser

Forms of hooded merganser

pluralhooded mergansers

Questions about hooded merganser

What does hooded merganser mean?
Hooded merganser means a species of fish-eating duck, Lophodytes cucullatus.
What part of speech is hooded merganser?
Hooded merganser is a noun.
What is the plural of hooded merganser?
The plural of hooded merganser is hooded mergansers.

Words near hooded merganser in the dictionary

  1. hooded
  2. hooded crane
  3. hooded cranes
  4. hooded crow
  5. hooded crows
  6. hooded merganser
  7. hooded mergansers
  8. hooded oriole
  9. hooded orioles
  10. hooded parrot
  11. hooded parrots

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