单词 | outard |
释义 | outardn. Canadian and U.S. regional (now rare). The Canada goose, Branta canadensis. ΚΠ 1801 A. Mackenzie Voy. from Montreal 388 In the course of the day we caught nine outards, or Canddo geese, but they were as yet without their feathers. 1806 S. Fraser Jrnl. 27 June (1960) 208 Our hunters killed a beaver and a couple of Outards. 1869 B. F. French tr. L. D'Iberville Hist. Coll. Louisiana & Florida 362 We killed, there, a prodigious number of wild geese, which are called outards in this country, and are of a larger size than our geese in France. 1898 D. G. Elliot Wild Fowl U.S. & Brit. Possessions 68 In Louisiana it [sc. the Canada goose] is known as Outarde. 1917 Wilson Bull. 29 77 Branta canadensis—Outarde, brant, Marksville, La. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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