BRANT (brants)

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Irregular inflected form: brants   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does brant mean? 

• BRANT (noun)
  The noun BRANT has 1 sense:

1. small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward

  Familiarity information: BRANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

brant; brant goose; brent; brent goose

Hypernyms ("brant" is a kind of...):

goose (web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brant"):

Branta bernicla; common brant goose (the best known variety of brant goose)

Holonyms ("brant" is a member of...):

Branta; genus Branta (wild geese)