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Greylag

Greylag \Grey"lag`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) See Graylag.

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greylag

n. A large grey European goose, ''Anser anser'', with pink legs and dull orange beak.

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greylag

n. common gray wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds [syn: graylag, greylag goose, Anser anser]

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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.