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Smew   Listen
noun
Smew  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
Small European merganser (Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun.
(b)
The hooded merganser. (Local, U.S.)






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"Smew" Quotes from Famous Books



... Linnaeus. French, "Harle piette," "Harle etoile," "Petit harle huppe."—The Smew can only be considered an occasional accidental autumnal visitant, and the few that do occur are generally either females, young males, or males still in a state of change. I do not know of any instance in which a full-plumaged male has occurred in ...
— Birds of Guernsey (1879) • Cecil Smith



Words linked to "Smew" :   merganser, sawbill, genus Mergus, fish duck, sheldrake



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