单词 | pinkfooted goose |
释义 | > as lemmaspink-footed goose Without distinctive addition or context, the word is applied to the common tame goose ( Anser domesticus), which is descended from the wild grey or greylag goose ( A. ferus or cinereus). The other numerous species are distinguished by adjuncts expressing colour, appearance, or habits, as black goose, blue goose, blue-winged goose, laughing goose, pink-footed goose, white-fronted goose, etc.; habitat, as fen goose, marsh-goose, etc.; native region, as American (wild) goose, Chinese goose, etc. See also barnacle goose at barnacle n.2 Additions, bean-goose n., brent-goose n. at brent n., Canada goose n. at Canada n.1 2, etc.extracted from goosen.pink-footed goose pink-footed adj. having pink feet; pink-footed goose, a small migratory grey goose of northern Europe, Anser brachyrhynchus, having pink feet and legs and a dark head, sometimes regarded as a race of the bean goose, A. fabalis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > genus Anser > anser fabalis (pink-foot) pink-footed goose1839 pinkfoot1870 1839 A. D. Bartlett in Proc. Zool. Soc. 7 7 On a new British species of the genus Anser... Pink-footed Goose... Legs and feet, of a reddish flesh colour or pink. 1932 Discovery Aug. 244/2 White-fronted and pink-footed geese..are supposed to be nesting at the sources of the rivers running northwards from the ice-cap [in Iceland]. 1995 Guardian 18 Dec. i. 14/7 These were pink-footed geese, thousands of them moving in loosely drawn skeins across a small window of open sky. < as lemmas |
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