Siberian crane

English

Noun

Siberian crane (plural Siberian cranes)

1. A large white crane, Grus leucogeranus, which breeds in Arctic Russia and western Siberia.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 870:

     Baby Siberian cranes learning to fly rose briefly against the sky.

Synonyms

• (Grus leucogeranus): Siberian white crane, snow crane

Translations

Grus leucogeranus

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 白鶴／白鹤 (baak⁶ hok^6-2), 白鹤 (baak⁶ hok^6-2)

  Mandarin: 白鶴／白鹤 (zh) (báihè), 白鹤 (zh) (báihè)

• Dutch: Siberische witte kraanvogel m
• Finnish: lumikurki (fi)
• French: grue de Sibérie (fr) f
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• German: Nonnenkranich m
• Hungarian: hódaru
• Italian: gru siberiana f
• Navajo: hakʼaz dééł
• Russian: стерх (ru) m (sterx), бе́лый жура́вль m (bélyj žurávlʹ)

Further reading

• Siberian crane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia