MERGUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mergus mean? 

• MERGUS (noun)
  The noun MERGUS has 1 sense:

1. mergansers

  Familiarity information: MERGUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MERGUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mergansers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Mergus; Mergus

Hypernyms ("Mergus" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "Mergus"):

fish duck; merganser; sawbill; sheldrake (large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges)

goosander; Mergus merganser (common merganser of Europe and North America)

American merganser; Mergus merganser americanus (common North American diving duck considered a variety of the European goosander)

Mergus serrator; red-breasted merganser (widely distributed merganser of America and Europe)

Mergus albellus; smew (smallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern Eurasia)

Holonyms ("Mergus" is a member of...):

Merginae; subfamily Merginae (mergansers and closely related diving birds)