genus Branta

Thesaurus

Noun

1.genus Branta - wild geese Brantabird genus - a genus of birdsAnatidae, family Anatidae - swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducksbrant, brant goose, brent, brent goose - small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southwardBranta canadensis, Canada goose, Canadian goose, honker - common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting callbarnacle goose, Branta leucopsis, barnacle - European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north