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Definition of Brent goose

1. Noun. Small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward.

Definition of Brent goose

1. Noun. (British) A small member of the goose family (''Anatidae''), ''Branta bernicla'' ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Brent Goose

Literary usage of Brent goose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Instructions and Methods Regarding Learning and Writing Bengali Language and by Edmund Saul Dixon, Nathan Brown, Art ancien S.A., Walter Taylor Field, Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.), Jyotish Chandra Ghose (1848)
"THE brent goose. THIS, and the interesting little Sandwich Island Goose, ... The captive brent goose has not, that I am aware, bred in any British ..."

2. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1843)
"brent goose. ANSER BERNICLA, Linn. PLATE CCCLXXIX.—MALE AND FEMALE. ... The Brent Goose may be considered as a salt-water bird, for it never ascends our ..."

3. A History of British Birds: The Figures Engraved on Wood by Thomas Bewick, Ralph Beilby, Henry Cotes (1816)
"... THE brent goose. (Anas Bernicla, Lin.-—Le Cravant, Buff.) THIS is of nearly the same shape, but somewhat less than the last, from which it differs in ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"They depart for circumpolar breeding haunts about the end of March or beginning of April. A white-bellied form of the brent goose ..."

5. Graham's Magazine by George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe (1851)
"So strongly is this peculiarity marked in the brent goose, that when they leave their feeding-grounds to the northward, compelled by stress of climate in ..."

6. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"Of the regular brent-goose we have but few. We killed one out of a flock in the Illinois ... The brent-goose is about half the size of the Canada variety, ..."

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