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white wavey

a white goose, such as the snow goose or the lesser snow goose, Chen hyporborea hyperborea.
See also: greater snow goose lesser snow goose snow goose wavey
- 1781-1801 (1959) [Lesser Snow Goose . . . white way-way ("Hudson Bay." Lantham 1781-1801).]
- 1882 They do not associate either with the large blue or white wavies.
- 1932 He found great numbers of swans nesting at Cape Low [1902] . . . and during the fall of that year saw quantities of white and blue wavies.
- 1959 Lesser Snow Goose [is also called] White Wavey. . . .