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 Sco·ter n.  Zool. Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Oidemia.
 Note: ☞ The European scoters are Oidemia nigra, called also black duck, black diver, surf duck; and the velvet, or double, scoter (Oidemia fusca). The common American species are the velvet, or white-winged, scoter (Oidemia Deglandi), called also velvet duck, white-wing, bull coot, white-winged coot; the black scoter (Oidemia Americana), called also black coot, butterbill, coppernose; and the surf scoter, or surf duck (Oidemia perspicillata), called also baldpate, skunkhead, horsehead, patchhead, pishaug, and spectacled coot. These birds are collectively called also coots.  The females and young are called gray coots, and brown coots.
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 Surf n.  The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.
 Surf bird Zool., a ploverlike bird of the genus Aphriza, allied to the turnstone.
 Surf clam Zool., a large clam living on the open coast, especially Mactra solidissima (syn. Spisula solidissima). See Mactra.
 Surf duck Zool., any one of several species of sea ducks of the genus Oidemia, especially Oidemia percpicillata; -- called also surf scoter. See the Note under Scoter.
 Surf fish Zool., any one of numerous species of California embiotocoid fishes. See Embiotocoid.
 Surf smelt. Zool. See Smelt.
 Surf whiting. Zool. See under Whiting.