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Ancestor of many domestic breeds
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greylag
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Word definitions for greylag in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Greylag \Grey"lag`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) See Graylag.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. common gray wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds [syn: graylag , greylag goose , Anser anser ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A large grey European goose, ''Anser anser'', with pink legs and dull orange beak.
Usage examples of greylag.
It was thick and clamorous with birds, shocking-pink flamingos and white spoonbills, greylag geese and wigeon, black-wing stilts wading about on their absurd spindly legs, redshanks dipping their long bills for shellfish and insect "larvae, although they hadn't gotten ahead of the mosquitoes, from the clouds that buzzed about.
It was thick and clamorous with birds, shocking-pink flamingos and white spoonbills, greylag geese and wigeon, black-wing stilts wading about on their absurd spindly legs, redshanks dipping their long bills for shellfish and insect “larvae, although they hadn’t gotten ahead of the mosquitoes, from the clouds that buzzed about.