hooded merganser : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hooded merganser	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hooded merganser
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hooded merganser n small North American duck with a high circular crest on the male's head Synonym(s): hooded merganser, hooded sheldrake, Lophodytes cucullatus
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}).