greylag
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈɡɹeɪlæɡ/
Noun

greylag (plural greylags)

  1. A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak.
    • 2010, M. Owen, Greylag Goose, Peter Lack (editor), The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland, page 74 ↗,
      Greylags used to concentrate on British estuaries, eating roots of rushes and sedges, as they do in other parts of their range.
    • 2012, Adam Watson, Ian Francis, Birds in North-East Scotland Then and Now, page 11 ↗,
      Earlier, 250 more had flown to Rattray beach, nearly all pinkfeet although I saw four greylags and heard others.
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