Search Result for "hooded_merganser":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hooded \Hood"ed\, a. 1. Covered with a hood. [1913 Webster] 2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood. [1913 Webster] 3. Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip. [1913 Webster] 4. (Zool.) (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. [1913 Webster] 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). [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]