SAWBILL

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Meaning:

Large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges

Synonyms:

fish duck; merganser; sawbill; sheldrake

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sawbill" is a kind of...):

sea duck (any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider; scoter; merganser)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sawbill"):

goosander; Mergus merganser (common merganser of Europe and North America)

American merganser; Mergus merganser americanus (common North American diving duck considered a variety of the European goosander)

Mergus serrator; red-breasted merganser (widely distributed merganser of America and Europe)

Mergus albellus; smew (smallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern Eurasia)

hooded merganser; hooded sheldrake; Lophodytes cucullatus (small North American duck with a high circular crest on the male's head)

Holonyms ("sawbill" is a member of...):

genus Mergus; Mergus (mergansers)