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hooded mergansers

hooded mergansers is the plural of hooded merganser.

Meaning of hooded merganser

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

Questions about hooded mergansers

What is hooded mergansers the plural of?
Hooded mergansers is the plural of hooded merganser.

Words near hooded mergansers in the dictionary

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

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