Get to know Mergansers better with 6 real example sentences, the meaning.
Mergansers meaning
plural of merganser
Using Mergansers
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of merganser
- In the example corpus, mergansers often appears in combinations such as: ducks mergansers, mergansers geese, hooded mergansers.
Context around Mergansers
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mergansers
- In this selection, "mergansers" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ducks, hooded, breasted, geese, played and share stand out and add context to how "mergansers" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ducks mergansers geese coots and hooded mergansers are rare. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mergansers" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mergansers
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Birds affected included grebes, common and red-breasted mergansers, loons, diving ducks, ring-billed gulls and herring gulls. (18 words)
Today, a mated pair of mergansers share this bay of the fjord with splashing Arctic terns, recently arrived from waters off Antarctica. (22 words)
In addition to pheasants, licensed hunters, 15 and under, will be able to hunt ducks, mergansers, geese and coots statewide on these two days. (24 words)
Ducks, mergansers, geese, coots and moorhens may be harvested; accompanying adults are not permitted to harvest these species during the hunt unless hunting during the September portion of the Canada goose hunting season or the early teal season. (38 words)
Two pair of Hooded mergansers played tag near the Fun Farm Bridge east of St. Anthony while a small flock of Lesser scaup and dozens of Golden-eyes dove looking for food. (32 words)
Hooded mergansers are rare, highly decorated diving ducks in small flocks inhabiting both marine bays and coves, as well as freshwater ponds and lakes, relying on fish and crustaceans. (29 words)
Example sentences (6)
In addition to pheasants, licensed hunters, 15 and under, will be able to hunt ducks, mergansers, geese and coots statewide on these two days.
Two pair of Hooded mergansers played tag near the Fun Farm Bridge east of St. Anthony while a small flock of Lesser scaup and dozens of Golden-eyes dove looking for food.
Today, a mated pair of mergansers share this bay of the fjord with splashing Arctic terns, recently arrived from waters off Antarctica.
Ducks, mergansers, geese, coots and moorhens may be harvested; accompanying adults are not permitted to harvest these species during the hunt unless hunting during the September portion of the Canada goose hunting season or the early teal season.
Hooded mergansers are rare, highly decorated diving ducks in small flocks inhabiting both marine bays and coves, as well as freshwater ponds and lakes, relying on fish and crustaceans.
Birds affected included grebes, common and red-breasted mergansers, loons, diving ducks, ring-billed gulls and herring gulls.
Common combinations with mergansers
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: