merganser
noun
any of several fish-eating diving ducks of the subfamily Merginae, having a narrow bill hooked at the tip and serrated at the edges.
mergansers
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pluralof merganser.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A new University of Otago-led study has uncovered the origins of a mysterious lineage of mergansers in Aotearoa New Zealand.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2024
Female mergansers do a couple of interesting things that help explain how one duck could have 76 ducklings following her.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 7, 2024
A pair of hooded mergansers swam by with some Canada geese.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2019
Then there was the time he tried to prepare mergansers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2019
It might have implied that white sharks were more important than mergansers or spotted salamanders, but to me they were.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
