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Webster 1828 Edition

Merganser

MERGAN'SER

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Noun.

[L. mergo, to dive.] A water fowl of the genus Mergus; called also goosander.

Definition 2025

merganser

merganser

English

Mergus serrator

Noun

merganser ‎(plural mergansers)

Any of various diving ducks of the genera Mergus or Lophodytes, which feed on fish and have a sharply serrated bill.

Synonyms

(Eurasian) goosander, Mergus merganser

Derived terms

†Auckland merganser (also Auckland Islands merganser), Mergus australis (extinct)
Brazilian merganser, Mergus octosetaceus'
common merganser, Mergus merganser
hooded merganser, Lophodytes cucullatus
red-breasted merganser, Mergus serrator
scaly-sided merganser, Mergus squamatus
typical merganser, Mergus

Translations

diving duck

Dutch: zaagbek (nl)
Finnish: koskelo
German: Säger (de) m (Mergus), Sägetaucher m (Mergus), Gänsesäger m (Mergus merganser), Dunkelsäger m (Mergus octosetaceus), Schuppensäger m (Mergus squamatus), Kappensäger m (Mergus cucullatus), Mittelsäger m (Mergus serrator), Aucklandsäger m (Mergus australis, extinct)
Hungarian: bukómadár (hu), bukó (hu)
Japanese: 秋沙 ‎(aisa)

Korean: 비오리 ‎(biori)
Navajo: naalʼeełí bidaatsʼózí
Portuguese: merganso m
Russian: кроха́ль (ru) m ‎(kroxálʹ), большо́й кроха́ль m ‎(bolʹšój kroxálʹ) (Mergus merganser)
Spanish: serreta (es) f (Mergus), serreta grande f (Mergus merganser)
Swedish: skrake
Volapük: (♂♀) märgut (Mergus), (♂) himärgut, (♀) jimärgut, (♂♀ offspring) märgutül, (♂ offspring) himärgutül, (♀ offspring) jimärgutül

See also

smew, Mergellus albellus (also sometimes Mergus albellus)
Zwergsäger, Mergellus albellus