Hypertext Webster Gateway: "smew"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Smew \Smew\, n. [Perhaps for ice-mew.] (Zo["o]l.)
(a) small European merganser ({Mergus albellus}) which has a
white crest; -- called also {smee}, {smee duck}, {white
merganser}, and {white nun}.
(b) The hooded merganser. [Local, U.S.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
smew
n : smallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern
Eurasia [syn: {Mergus albellus}]
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