GENUS BRANTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Branta mean? 

• GENUS BRANTA (noun)
  The noun GENUS BRANTA has 1 sense:

1. wild geese

  Familiarity information: GENUS BRANTA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS BRANTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wild geese

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Branta; genus Branta

Hypernyms ("genus Branta" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "genus Branta"):

brant; brant goose; brent; brent goose (small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward)

Branta canadensis; Canada goose; Canadian goose; honker (common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call)

barnacle; barnacle goose; Branta leucopsis (European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north)

Holonyms ("genus Branta" is a member of...):

Anatidae; family Anatidae (swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducks)