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Anseres

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the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

noun-plural. A Linnæan order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

In the Linnean system (1766), the third order of birds, including all “water-birds,” or palmipeds, and equivalent to the series Natatores of modern naturalists.

An order or suborder of birds corresponding to the Lamellirostres of Cuvier, or to the Chenomorphœ of Huxley: in this sense of nearly the same extent as the family Anatidœ, or lamellirostral birds exclusive of the flamingos.

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n. used in some especially older classifications; coextensive with the family Anatidae

Word Usage

"In medieval Paris it was called in Latin vitus ubi coquntur anseres, “the street where geese are cooked.”"

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animal order