fish duck

Questions about fish duck

What does fish duck mean?

fish duck means "large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges".

What is another word for fish duck?

Close synonyms include merganser, sawbill, sheldrake. 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 fish duck a common word?

fish duck is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.