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brant

[brant]
–noun, plural brants, (especially collectively) brant.
any of several species of small, dark-colored geese of the genus Branta, esp. B. bernicla, breeding in high northern latitudes and migrating south in the autumn.
Also called brant goose; especially British, brent, brent goose.


Origin:
1535–45; short for brantgoose, brentgoose; akin to ON brandgās, G Brandgans
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brant goose

noun
small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward [syn: brant
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