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gray goose

• 1 a kind of large gray goose, Branta canadensis, with a black head and neck and white cheek patches.

  See also: Canada goose  

  • 1717  (1932)  The Indians ware out & brought home 4 Grey Geese.
  • 1896  (1898)  The "gray goose" is common throughout this region, at least during the migratory season, and furnishes food in the spring for many natives.
  • 1942  The five big gray geese . . . were wearily walking among the rocks and gravel that edged the ice-fringed creek.
  • 1959  Eastern Canada Goose [is also called] . . . grey goose (Rather general). . . .

• 2 a grayish-brown goose, Anser albifrons, having a white face and a black-blotched breast and breeding in the Canadian Arctic.

  See also: white-fronted goose  

  • 1922  Genus--Anser. Grey Goose. White-Fronted Goose. . . .
  • 1954  Mr. Hamilton brought in a handsome grey goose that he said was identical with the variety known as the "grey Lag" in the far away Shetland Islands.