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Webster 1913 Edition
Graylag
Gray′lagˊ
,Noun.
(Zool.)
The common wild gray goose (
Anser anser
) of Europe, believed to be the wild form of the domestic goose. See Illust. of Goose
. Definition 2024
graylag
graylag
English
Noun
graylag (plural graylags)
- Alternative spelling of greylag
- 1872, John Cordeaux, Ornithological Notes from North Lincolnshire, Edward Newman (editor), Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History, 2nd Series, Volume 7, page 3016,
- Wild Geese. — February 29th. Saw a skein of ten wild geese flying a few feet above the Humber this morning : from their size and colour I believe them to have been graylags.
- 1973, Ivan Newton MacCollom, Nancy Lloyd Badore, Exploring Psychology: Introductory Readings, page 405,
- Eventually a few graylags landed; the Professor dug into his bucket, scattered some barley grain about, and started to scribble notes.
- 2012, Mikael Aktor, Negotiating Karma: Penance in the Classical Indian Law Books, Ute Hüsken, Frank Neubert (editors), Negotiating Rites, page 24,
- With reference to Konrad Lorenz's famous graylags, which assure each other of their solidarity by the display of common aggression against a nonexistent interloper, Burkert defines ritual as “action redirected for demonstration.”
- 1872, John Cordeaux, Ornithological Notes from North Lincolnshire, Edward Newman (editor), Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History, 2nd Series, Volume 7, page 3016,
Synonyms
- (greylag): greylag goose