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fish duck

 
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–noun Informal.
merganser.
Origin:
1855–60, Americanism
Your Fish Guide
When, where, how -- we're your ultimate fish resource.
www.TakeMeFishing.org
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by gut fish? rod repair, decorative thread art and more, come sea.
www.cfrbygutfish.com

mer⋅gan⋅ser

  [mer-gan-ser]
–noun, plural -sers, (especially collectively) -ser.
any of several fish-eating diving ducks of the subfamily Merginae, having a narrow bill hooked at the tip and serrated at the edges.
Also called fish duck.

Origin:
1745–55; < NL, equiv. to L merg(us) diver, a kind of water bird + ānser goose
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merganser 
type of duck, 1752, from Mod.L. (1555), from L. mergus "waterfowl, diver," from mergere "to dip, immerse" (see merge) + anser "goose" (see goose).
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