Smew

Definition: Smew

Smew

Noun

1. Smallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern Eurasia.

Note: Smew \Smew\, noun. [Perhaps for ice-mew.]. (Websters 1913)

"Smew" is a common misspelling or typo for: sew, skew, slew, spew, stew.

Synonym: Smew

Synonym: Mergus albellus (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Smew

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Smew

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Anseriformes
Family:	Anatidae
Genus:	*Mergellus*
Species:	*albellus*

Binomial name

Mergellus albellus

The Smew, Mergellus albellus, is a small duck which is intermediate between the merganserss and the goldeneyes, and has interbred with Goldeneye.

This species breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes. It nests in tree holes, such as old woodpecker nests. The Smew has a hooked tip and serrated edges to its bill to help it catch fish, which it does by diving.

The Smew is shy and flushes easily when disturbed.

The drake Smew, with its 'cracked ice' appearance is unmistakeable, and looks very black-and-white in flight. The female is a grey bird with a chestnut forehead and crown, which can be confused at a distance with Ruddy duck. It has oval white wing-patches in flight.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Smew."

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Crosswords: Smew

English words defined with "smew": Easterling ♦ Smeath, Smee ♦ Vare widgeon ♦ Weasel coot, white nun, White widgeon. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Smew

"Smew" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Smew" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	50%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	25%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Smew

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
smew	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Smew

Language		Translations for "smew"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		lille skallesluger. (various references)

Dutch		nonnetje (black-arched moth, night moth, nun moth). (various references)

French		harle piette. (various references)

German		Zwergsäger. (various references)

Greek		νανοπρίστης. (various references)

Hungarian		bukómadár (merganser). (various references)

Italian		smergo (merganser), pesciaiola. (various references)

Manx		caillagh vane. (various references)

Pig Latin		ewsmay

Portuguese		merganso-pequeno. (various references)

Russian		луток. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		beli gnjurac. (various references)

Spanish		serreta chica. (various references)

Turkish		sütlâbi, beyaz tarak dişli ördek. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Smew

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Mergus albellus, RM:marel pitschen. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Smew

Derivations
	Words beginning with "smew": smews. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Smew"

Words ending with "ew": few, Glew, Gnew, Jew, Lew, Rew, Snew, Sprew, strew. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Smew

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: mews.
	Words within the letters "e-m-s-w"
	-1 letter: ems, mew, sew.
	-2 letters: em, es, me, we.
	Words containing the letters "e-m-s-w"
	+1 letter: meows, mewls, smews, wames.
	+2 letters: embows, mowers, unmews, whelms.
	+3 letters: awesome, beswarm, beworms, deworms, enwombs, manwise, meadows, mellows, mewlers, mildews, misdrew, misgrew, misknew, newsman, newsmen, rewarms, semiraw, showmen, snowmen, somehow, someway, stewbum, swagmen, swamies, swamped, swamper, swarmed, swarmer, swimmer, twasome, twosome, wadmels, wagsome, wambles, wamuses, warmers, warmest, whimsey, wimbles, wimples, winsome, woesome, womeras, wormers.
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