brent goose

English

Brent goose

Alternative forms

• brant goose (US)

Etymology

The first word is perhaps from branded, meaning brindled.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

brent goose (plural brent geese)

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

   Synonyms: brant, brant goose, road-goose, rood goose, rot-goose, (Scotland, obsolete) rout, (dialectal, obsolete) ware goose

Translations

small member of the goose family

• Belarusian: чорная казарка f (čórnaja kazarka)
• Catalan: oca de collar f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑雁 (hēi yàn)

• Czech: berneška tmavá f
• Danish: mørkbuget knortegås c, knortegås (da) c
• Dutch: rotgans (nl) f
• Esperanto: berniklo, kolringa ansero
• Estonian: mustlagle
• Faroese: helsigás f
• Finnish: sepelhanhi (fi)
• French: bernache cravant (fr) f
• German: Ringelgans (de) f
• Greek: δαχτυλιδόχηνα f (dachtylidóchina)
• Greenlandic: nerlernaq
• Hungarian: örvös lúd
• Icelandic: margæs (is) f, margæs (is) f
• Ido: bernaklo (io)
• Irish: cadhan m
• Japanese: 黒雁 (kokugan)
• Kazakh: қарашақаз (qaraşaqaz)
• Korean: 흑기러기 (heukgireogi)
• Lithuanian: paprastoji berniklė (lt) f
• Navajo: naalʼeełítsoh diłhiłígíí
• Norman: (Guernsey) benêque f, (Guernsey) breune cônerote f, (Guernsey) ouvette f, (Jersey) bânêque f
• Portuguese: ganso-de-faces-negras m
• Romanian: gâscă neagră f
• Russian: чёрная каза́рка f (čórnaja kazárka)
• Slovak: bernikľa tmavá f
• Spanish: barnacla carinegra f
• Swedish: prutgås (sv) c
• Ukrainian: казарка чорна f (kazarka čorna)

References

• brent goose on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Branta bernicla on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Branta bernicla on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• geosorbent