| 单词 | greylag goose |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreylag goose More fully greylag goose. The common wild goose of Eurasia, Anser anser, which has predominantly greyish-brown plumage, an orange (or pink) bill, and pink legs, and is the ancestor of the domestic goose. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > genus Anser > anser anser (grey lag) grey gooseeOE fen-goose1606 greylag1685 marsh goose1766 stubble-goose1885 1685 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 15 1160 Anser Palustris noster, Grey Lagg, dictus. 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) II. iii. 191 The Grey Lag is the origin of the domestic goose. 1794 W. Lewin Birds Great-Brit. VII. 3 The Wild Goose, or Gray Lag, is in weight about eight pounds. 1838 Analyst 8 57 The Bean Goose is distinguished from the Greylag Goose by the bill of the former being much smaller, and black. 1880 C. O. G. Napier Lakes & Rivers iv. 109 The gray-leg chooses various kinds of places for its nest. 1910 A. Chapman & W. J. Buck Unexplored Spain viii. 92 About the 25th September the first greylag geese appear. 1952 M. K. Wilson tr. K. Z. Lorenz King Solomon's Ring vii. 78 Mere miming, as the greylag goose can. 2004 Sporting Gun Mar. 3/2 I'm packing for my annual trip to Scotland's Tay estuary for the last week of the foreshore season among the pinkfeet and greylags. < as lemmas |
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