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GENUS MERGUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Mergus mean? 

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

1. mergansersplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS MERGUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Mergansers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Mergus; Mergus

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

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus Mergus" is a member of...):

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


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