hooded merganser
English
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A male hooded merganser
Noun
hooded merganser (plural hooded mergansers)
- A species of fish-eating duck, Lophodytes cucullatus.
- Synonyms: hooded sheldrake, hootamaganzy, hoodie
- 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 2015-10-30:
- 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.
Further reading
Hooded merganser on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “hooded merganser”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “hooded merganser, n.” under “hooded, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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