English > goose: 6 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger / larger and less aquatic than ducks. |
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| Member of | Anatidae, family Anatidae | swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip |
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| gaggle | A flock of geese |
| Parts | goose | flesh of a goose (domestic or wild) |
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| goose down | down of the goose |
| Narrower | Chinese goose, Anser cygnoides | Very large wild goose of northeast Asia |
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| barnacle goose, barnacle, Branta leucopsis | European goose smaller than the brant |
| blue goose, Chen caerulescens | North American wild goose having dark plumage in summer but white in winter |
| brant, brant goose, brent, brent goose | small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward |
| gander | mature male goose |
| gosling | young goose |
| greylag, graylag, greylag goose, graylag goose, Anser anser | Common grey wild goose of Europe |
| honker, Canada goose, Canadian goose, Branta canadensis | Common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call |
| Broader | anseriform bird | chiefly web-footed swimming birds |
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| Spanish | ánsar, ganso, oca |
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| Catalan | oca |
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| Nouns | gosling | young goose |
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