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Graylag

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A large gray European goose (Anser anser) having pinkish legs and feet and a pink to orangish bill.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The common European wild goose, Anser anser

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The common wild gray goose (Anser anser) of Europe, believed to be the wild form of the domestic goose. See Illust. of goose.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The common gray or wild goose of Europe, Anser cinereus or ferus; the fen-, marsh-, or stubble-goose, the wild original of the domestic goose.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds

Word Usage

"Heinroth, a German zoolo - gist and ethologist, read a paper in 1910 in which he described the behavior of incubator-hatched graylag goslings (“Beiträge zur Biologie, nahmentlich Ethologie und Psychologie der Anatiden,” Verh. 5 int. orn."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

goose

Variant

goose