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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small Old World merganser (Mergus albellus), the male of which has white and black plumage and a white crest.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A small merganser or fishing-duck, Mergellus albellus, the white nun, or smee, of the family Anatidæ and subfamily Merginæ, inhabiting northerly parts of the eastern hemisphere. The male in adult plumage is a very beautiful bird, of a pure white, varied with black and gray, and tinged with green on the crested head; the length is about 17 inches. The female is smaller, with reddish-brown and gray plumage, and is called the red-headed smew. Also smeath.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A small compact diving duck, Mergus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Local, U.S., Local, U.S. small European merganser (Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun.
  2. n. Local, U.S. The hooded merganser.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. smallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern Eurasia

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  1. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. fish duck
  1. sheldrake
  1. merganser
  1. sawbill

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  1. smethe
  2. smee
  1. easterling
  2. vare-widgeon
  1. smeath
  2. white merganser
  1. nun
  2. vare widgeon
  1. weasel coot
  2. white nun
  1. white widgeon
  2. weasel-coot

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  • trivet Also called the White Nun or Smee. See what Audubon has to say here.

    And a beautiful picture here.
    Jul 2, 2007

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