goosander

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A brood of the goosander or red merganser, the young not yet able to fly, were the occasion of some spirited rowing.

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  1. noun Chiefly British A fish-eating duck (Mergus merganser), the male of which has a glossy greenish-black head and a white body.

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  • A brood of the goosander or red merganser, the young not yet able to fly, were the occasion of some spirited rowing. —  Wake-Robin
  • Duck, goosander (_m. merganser_), ko-ōkw. —  Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi
  • Fish forms an inappreciable portion of their food, with the two notorious exceptions of the goosander and merganser, though anglers are much exercised over the damage, real or alleged, done by these birds to their favourite roach and dace in the —  Birds in the Calendar
  • The wants which the heron and the goosander now express by nods and winks, were then conveyed by plain, straightforward words; and the grunts and squeaks of the hog, and the bleating of the kid, and the neighing of the horse, and the howl of the dog, and the crowing of the cock, and the cackling of the hen, and the other means by which beasts, and birds, and other creatures, at this day make known their wants and wishes, were then unknown. —  Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)
 

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  1. Spelled gossander in Drayton; artificially formed, from goose + (g)ander, in imitation of New Latin merganser (Gesner), from Latin mergus, q. v., + anser, goose.
 

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