Melanitta

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black”) + νῆττα (nêtta, “duck”).

Proper noun

Melanitta f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Anatidae – scoters, breeding in subarctic environments of the northern hemisphere.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.