单词 | brent goose |
释义 | brent goose (once / 562825 pages) n WORD FAMILY brent goose: brent geese USAGE EXAMPLESThe Brent Geese were calling overhead But Bill the Weasel was just behind him: and Hob the Marsh Harrier was above him in mid-air. Byron, May Clarissa Gillington, Robin's Rambles(2012) On the 8th June the first ducks and brent geese were seen flying northward. McClintock, Francis Leopold, In the Arctic Seas—A Narrative of t...(2011) He would tell of immense flocks of widgeon, of banks of brent geese, and clouds of dunlin. Anonymous, The Confessions of a Poacher(2011) n small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward Syn|Hypo|Hyper brant, brant goose, brent Branta bernicla, common brant goose the best known variety of brant goose goose web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks |
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