单词 | barnacle goose |
释义 | > as lemmasbarnacle goose barnacle goose = sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > genus Branta > branta leucopsis (barnacle goose) barnaclea1227 tree-goose1597 bar-goose1606 Scots goose1668 barnacle goose1840 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 263 The Barnacle Goose..with a grey mantle. 1910 Brit. Birds IV. 344 The author discovered a number of Barnacle-Geese in a marsh some ten or fifteen kilometres from the sea. 1959 F. Bodsworth Strange One (1960) i. i. 3 The barnacle goose..had been restless and more than normally alert since the last of the flock moved out the day before on the flight to the Greenland nesting fiords. 1983 Birds Spring 5/1 The barnacle goose was given full protection throughout the whole of Britain. < as lemmas |
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