snow goose

English

a snow goose

Pronunciation

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Noun

snow goose (plural snow geese)

1. A goose of the species Anser caerulescens (syn. Chen caerulescens, native to North America.

Synonyms

• (Anser caerulescens): Chen caerulescens, blue goose

Translations

Anser caerulescens

• Ahtna: tsʼenlazeni
• Breton: gwaz-erc'hegi
• Bulgarian: снежна гъска f (snežna găska)
• Danish: snegås c
• Dutch: sneeuwgans (nl) f
• Faroese: snjógás f
• Finnish: lumihanhi (fi)
• French: oie des neiges (fr) f, oie blanche (fr) f (Canada)
• Galician: ganso das neves (gl) m
• German: Schneegans (de) f
• Greenlandic: kangoq
• Holikachuk: distsʼin qʼul
• Icelandic: snjógæs (is) f
• Inuktitut: ᑲᖑᖅ (kangoq)
• Italian: oca delle nevi f
• Japanese: 白雁 (hakugan)
• Koyukon: hʉggʉh
• Low German:

  German Low German: Sneegoos f

• Lushootseed: ʔəx̌aʔ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: snøgås (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: snøgås f

• Polish: śnieżyca duża f, gęś śnieżna f
• Portuguese: ganso-das-neves m
• Romanian: gâscă de zăpadă f
• Russian: бе́лый гусь m (bélyj gusʹ)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: muohtačuonjá

• Spanish: ánsar nival m, ganso blanco m, ganso nival m
• Swedish: snögås c
• Tanana:

  Lower Tanana: ts'elozrena

Further reading

• snow goose on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chen caerulescens on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Chen caerulescens on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons