English word senses marked with lifeform category "Geese"

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Total 69 word senses

• Canada goose (Noun) A large goose, Branta canadensis.
• Cape Barren goose (Noun) An Australian species of goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiae.
• China goose (Noun) swan goose
• Chinese goose (Noun) The domestic goose Anser cygnoides domesticus.
• Egyptian goose (Noun) A goose of the species Alopochen aegyptiaca.
• Emden goose (Noun) A goose of a domestic breed thought to have its origins around the North Sea region, in the Netherlands and Germany.
• Hawaiian goose (Noun) The nene, Branta sandvicensis.
• Hissian (Noun) Synonym of goose
• Magellan goose (Noun) upland goose
• New Zealand goose (Noun) A large bird of the extinct genus Cnemiornis of the family Anatidae, endemic to New Zealand.
• anserine (Adjective) Pertaining to a goose or geese; gooselike.
• anserine (Adjective) Exhibiting goose flesh.
• anserine (Noun) A dipeptide compound present in birds and other vertebrates, originally isolated from goose muscle.
• bar-headed goose (Noun) A species of goose (Anser indicus)
• barnacle (Noun) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
• barnacle (Noun) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
• barnacle (Noun) An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.
• barnacle (Noun) A good job, or snack easily obtained.
• barnacle goose (Noun) A black and white species of bird within the family Anatidae from the northern hemisphere, Branta leucopsis.
• bean goose (Noun) Any of species Anser fabalis of grey geese, of family Anatidae.
• bernicle (Noun) A form of torture in which the legs were crushed between pieces of wood.
• black goose (Noun) Any goose of the genus Branta.
• brand goose (Noun) A wild goose, the brant.
• brant (Noun) Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.
• brent goose (Noun) A small member of the goose family (Anatidae), Branta bernicla.
• cackling goose (Noun) Branta hutchinsii, a North American bird of the genus Branta of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species.
• cereopsis (Noun) Any large goose of the genus Cereopsis.
• claik (Noun) Gossip; a gossip.
• cook someone's goose (Verb) To spoil one's plans or hope of success.
• cotton pygmy goose (Noun) A small perching duck of species Nettapus coromandelianus.
• gander (Noun) A man living apart from his wife.
• goose (Verb) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
• gooseling (Noun) A small or baby goose; gosling.
• goosie (Noun) goose
• goosy (Noun) A foolish person; a silly.
• gosling (Noun) A catkin on willows, nut trees, and pines.
• graylag (Noun) Alternative spelling of greylag
• greater white-fronted goose (Noun) Anser albifrons
• green goose (Noun) A young goose, especially under four years old.
• green goose (Noun) A fool, a simpleton.
• greylag (Noun) A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak.
• greylag goose (Noun) Anser anser, a goose that breads in northern Eurasia and winters in semitropical Asia.
• harvest goose (Noun) The greylag.
• laughing goose (Noun) The European white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).
• lesser white-fronted goose (Noun) Anser erythropus, a goose closely related to the larger white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)
• magpie goose (Noun) Alternative form of magpie-goose.
• nene (Noun) The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.
• pink-footed goose (Noun) Anser brachyrhynchus, a goose that breeds in Greenland, Iceland, etc.
• pinkfoot (Noun) Synonym of pink-footed goose
• rat-goose (Noun) brent goose
• red-breasted goose (Noun) Branta ruficollis, a species of goose from Eurasia, with a large rust-colored area on its breast and throat.
• rood goose (Noun) the barnacle goose.
• rout (Noun) A group of animals, especially one which is lively or unruly, or made up of wild animals such as wolves; a flock, a herd, a pack.
• rout (Verb) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
• rout (Verb) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
• rout (Verb) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
• sea brant (Noun) The brent goose.
• snow goose (Noun) A goose of the species Chen caerulescens, native to North America.
• speckled-belly (Noun) The greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)
• spur-winged goose (Noun) An anatid bird native to sub-Saharan Africa, Plectropterus gambensis.
• stubble goose (Noun) The greylag.
• swan goose (Noun) A large migratory goose (Anser cygnoides) belonging to the subfamily Anserinae.
• tundra bean goose (Noun) Any goose of species Anser serrirostris, that breeds in northern Siberia.
• upland goose (Noun) A species of sheldgoose, Chloephaga picta, found in temperate grasslands.
• ware goose (Noun) The brent goose.
• wavey (Noun) The snow goose (Chen caerulescens)
• white-fronted goose (Noun) A goose that has bright orange legs and mouse-coloured upper wing-coverts, Anser albifrons.
• whitehead (Noun) A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla)
• wild goose (Noun) any of many species of wildlife goose, such as the greylag goose or the Canada goose, whose wedge fly in a wedge or V form, or cuneiform, as opposed to the domesticated goose that would not fly.

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