"greylag" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From grey (“colour”) + lag (“old name for a goose, derived from the call used to move such animals along”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "greylags",
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "graylag",
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        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Geese",
          "orig": "en:Geese",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967, Jeffery G. Harrison, A Wealth of Wildfowl, page 150:",
          "text": "Since the war, migrant greylags have virtually deserted the Duddon estuary, so it is a source of great satisfaction that the WAGBI greylags have taken to roosting on the sands in mid-winter, flighting to and from the reserve.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, M. Owen, “Greylag Goose”, in Peter Lack, editor, The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland, page 74:",
          "text": "Greylags used to concentrate on British estuaries, eating roots of rushes and sedges, as they do in other parts of their range.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Adam Watson, Ian Francis, Birds in North-East Scotland Then and Now, page 11:",
          "text": "Earlier, 250 more had flown to Rattray beach, nearly all pinkfeet although I saw four greylags and heard others.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak."
      ],
      "id": "en-greylag-en-noun-Ke-qTlmj",
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        ],
        [
          "European",
          "European"
        ],
        [
          "goose",
          "goose"
        ],
        [
          "Anser anser",
          "Anser anser#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Anser"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "Anser anser",
          "word": "greylag goose"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Greylag goose"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹeɪlæɡ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "greylag"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From grey (“colour”) + lag (“old name for a goose, derived from the call used to move such animals along”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "greylags",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "graylag",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Anser"
    }
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        {
          "ref": "1967, Jeffery G. Harrison, A Wealth of Wildfowl, page 150:",
          "text": "Since the war, migrant greylags have virtually deserted the Duddon estuary, so it is a source of great satisfaction that the WAGBI greylags have taken to roosting on the sands in mid-winter, flighting to and from the reserve.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, M. Owen, “Greylag Goose”, in Peter Lack, editor, The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland, page 74:",
          "text": "Greylags used to concentrate on British estuaries, eating roots of rushes and sedges, as they do in other parts of their range.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Adam Watson, Ian Francis, Birds in North-East Scotland Then and Now, page 11:",
          "text": "Earlier, 250 more had flown to Rattray beach, nearly all pinkfeet although I saw four greylags and heard others.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak."
      ],
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          "Anser anser",
          "Anser anser#Translingual"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹeɪlæɡ/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "Anser anser",
      "word": "greylag goose"
    }
  ],
  "word": "greylag"
}