merganser

Questions about merganser

What is another word for merganser?

It depends which merganser you mean. In the sense “large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges”, the synonyms are fish duck, sawbill, sheldrake. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of merganser?

WordNet records no antonym for merganser. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for merganser come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of merganser

• Full entry for merganserAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for merganserWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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