branta canadensis

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   common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call

   SynonymshonkerCanada gooseCanadian goose

   Broadergoose

   Part ofBranta

Questions about branta canadensis

What does branta canadensis mean?

branta canadensis means "common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call".

What is another word for branta canadensis?

Close synonyms include honker, Canada goose, Canadian goose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is branta canadensis a common word?

branta canadensis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.