white-winged scoter

noun

variants or less commonly white-winged coot

: a large and very common American scoter (Melanitta deglandi) that is closely related to the velvet scoter of Europe and has a white speculum of the wing and in the adult male a white spot under the eye

Word History

First Known Use

1886, in the meaning defined above

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