Meanings
plural hooded mergansers
- A species of fish-eating duck, Lophodytes cucullatus.
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.
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 30 Oct 2015Synonyms: hooded sheldrake, hootamaganzy, hoodie, snowl
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA species of fish-eating duck, Lophodytes cucullatus.
More synonyms by meaning
nounsmall North American duck with a high circular crest on the male's head
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hooded merganser. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hooded%20merganser
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