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BRANTA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Wild geese
Synonyms:
Branta; genus Branta
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Branta" is a kind of...):
bird genus (a genus of birds)
Meronyms (members of "Branta"):
brant; brant goose; brent; brent goose (small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward)
Branta canadensis; Canada goose; Canadian goose; honker (common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call)
barnacle; barnacle goose; Branta leucopsis (European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north)
Holonyms ("Branta" is a member of...):
Anatidae; family Anatidae (swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducks)
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