Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of Australian geese, of the family Anatidæ and subfamily Anserinæ having a small and extensively membranous bill, and notably long legs, bare above the suffrago.
- noun A genus of coleopterous insects.
- noun A genus of cælenterates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any large
goose of the genusCereopsis
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Examples
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Keeper Atkin also showed me an instance of the wisdom of the cereopsis geese, from Van Diemens
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895
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Magellanic geese; and the Indian barred-headed goose; and the cereopsis from New Holland.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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Zoo employees arrived at work June 22 and found two cereopsis geese and one black swan dead from blunt force trauma and puncture wounds.
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