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   hooded merganser
         n 1: small North American duck with a high circular crest on the
               male's head [syn: {hooded merganser}, {hooded sheldrake},
               {Lophodytes cucullatus}]

English Dictionary: hooded merganser by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hooded \Hood"ed\, a.
      1. Covered with a hood.
  
      2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.
  
      3. Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of
            paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.
  
      4. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Having the head conspicuously different in color from
                  the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.
            (b) Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or
                  neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake.
  
      {Hooded crow}, a European crow (Corvus cornix); -- called
            also {hoody}, {dun crow}, and {royston crow}.
  
      {Hooded gull}, the European black-headed pewit or gull.
  
      {Hooded merganser}. See {Merganser}.
  
      {Hooded seal}, a large North Atlantic seal ({Cystophora
            cristata}). The male has a large, inflatible, hoodlike sac
            upon the head. Called also {hoodcap}.
  
      {Hooded sheldrake}, the hooded merganser. See {Merganser}.
  
      {Hooded snake}. See {Cobra de capello}, {Asp}, {Haje}, etc.
           
  
      {Hooded warbler}, a small American warbler ({Sylvania
            mitrata}).

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Hydetown, PA (borough, FIPS 36616)
      Location: 41.65162 N, 79.72428 W
      Population (1990): 681 (279 housing units)
      Area: 5.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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