Definition of Mergus

1. Noun. Mergansers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Mergus

Mercs
Mercurialis
Mercurialis annua
Mercurialis perennis
Mercurian
Mercury
Mercury program
Mercy
Meredith
Meredithian
Meregate
Merendino's technique
Mereon
Mergenthaler
Merginae
Mergus
Mergus albellus
Mergus merganser
Mergus merganser americanus
Mergus serrator
Meri
Meriam
Merida
Meridiani Planum
Meridith
Meriones
Meriones longifrons
Meriones unguiculatus
Merionethshire
Meriwether Lewis

Literary usage of Mergus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory by William Macgillivray (1852)
"mergus Albellus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 887. Smew or White Nun. ... mergus Albellus. Bonap. Comp. List. 59. Male with the bill shorter than the head, ..."

2. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1843)
"... no inferior laryngeal muscles. Nest on the ground, or in hollow trees. Eggs numerous. GENUS I.—mergus, Linn. MERGANSER. Character as above. ..."

3. The Birds of the Latin Poets by Ernest Whitney Martin (1914)
"Aut siccum quod mergus amat. The mergi frequent the hull of a shattered bark: Ast vocat officium, trabe rupta, ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"Finely striped with blackish; the head red; a green band at the corner of the eye edged with two white lines, Ecc. The capsule resembles a pea.(2) mergus ..."

5. A History of British Birds by Thomas Bewick, Ralph Beilby, Henry Cotes (1816)
"OF THE mergus. BIRDS of this genus have roundish slender bills, furnished at the end with a hard, horny, crooked nail; edges of the mandibles very sharply ..."

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