white goose

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a white goose, especially Chen hyperborea.

Quotations

1779

He also told me, that they had met with white-geese. . . .

1850

White geese are also passengers here, and there are like-wise black geese. . . .

1959

Lesser Snow Goose [is also called] white goose (general). . . .