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Webster 1913 Edition


Anseres

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An′se-res

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Noun.
pl.
[L., geese.]
(Zool.)
A Linnæan order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.