american merganser

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   common North American diving duck considered a variety of the European goosander

   SynonymsMergus merganser americanus

   Broadermerganser

   Part ofMergus

Questions about american merganser

What does american merganser mean?

american merganser means "common North American diving duck considered a variety of the European goosander".

What is another word for american merganser?

Close synonyms include Mergus merganser americanus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is american merganser a common word?

american merganser is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.