bergander

English

Etymology

From berg (“burrow”) + gander (“a male goose?”). Compare German Bergente, Danish gravgaas.

Noun

bergander (plural berganders)

  1. A European duck (Anas tadorna); the sheldrake.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bergander in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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