white wavey

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a white goose, such as the snow goose or the lesser snow goose, Chen hyporborea hyperborea.

Quotations

1781-1801

[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. . . .