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Definition of Fish duck
1. Noun. Large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges.
Generic synonyms: Sea Duck
Group relationships: Genus Mergus, Mergus
Specialized synonyms: Goosander, Mergus Merganser, American Merganser, Mergus Merganser Americanus, Mergus Serrator, Red-breasted Merganser, Mergus Albellus, Smew, Hooded Merganser, Hooded Sheldrake, Lophodytes Cucullatus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fish Duck
Literary usage of Fish duck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the by David Starr Jordan (1878)
"fish duck. $ black and white above, salmon-colored below; head glossy green, ...
N. Am., common. 2. M. serrator, L. RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. fish duck. ..."
2. The Speckled Brook Trout (salvelinus Fontinalis) by Charles Hallock, Louis Rhead (1902)
"During severe winters this fish-duck sometimes remains on Caledonia Creek for a
month ... Trout spawning-beds are also tempting spots for the fish-duck to ..."
3. The Naturalist in Norway: Or, Notes on the Wild Animals, Birds, Fishes, and by John Bowden (1869)
"Its Norwegian name is stor fisk-and, or great fish-duck. It appears to indulge
in a plurality of wives, as it is generally followed by two or three females. ..."
4. A Record of a Trip Through Canada's Wilderness to Lake Chibogamoo and to the by Frederick G. Pauli (1907)
"As no fresh meat could be had, we depended on fish, duck and partridge, when we
could get them. The first thing to be made is a fire, for which wood ..."
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