(n.) A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.
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Merganser
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(n.) Any bird of the genus Merganser, and allied genera. They are allied to the ducks, but have a sharply serrated bill.
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(1) 5 to 10% of the DNA of M. serrator and the closely related Mergus merganser.
(2) Two highly repeated nucleotide sequences (RBMI and RBMII) cloned from an EcoRI digest of DNA of the redbreasted merganser (Mergus serrator) account for approx.