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Definition of Anser cygnoides
1. Noun. Very large wild goose of northeast Asia; interbreeds freely with the greylag.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anser Cygnoides
Literary usage of Anser cygnoides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1881)
"Obtained in Tokio and Yezo. Specimens in the Hakodate Museum. (Seebohm, ‘This,'
1879, p. 22.) 26. anser cygnoides, L. [623] Jap. ..."
2. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"... the same is true of hybrids obtained from the wild buck and the domesticated
she-goat; from anser cygnoides and A. domes tints; f rom Salmo salvelinus ..."
3. The Birds of Jamaica: Being a History of the Bird, Its Structure, and Habits by Philip Henry Gosse, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Richard Hill (1874)
"... Bean Goose, White- fronted Goose, Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser minutus),
Swan Goose (anser cygnoides), and most of the northern Ducks. ..."
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