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Large goose
Answer for the clue "Large goose ", 7 letters:
greylag
Alternative clues for the word greylag
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.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A large grey European goose, ''Anser anser'', with pink legs and dull orange beak.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. common gray wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds [syn: graylag , greylag goose , Anser anser ]
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.