snow goose

English

a snow goose

Noun

snow goose (plural snow geese)

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

Synonyms

• (Chen caerulescens): Anser caerulescens, blue goose

Hypernyms

• white goose (genus Chen); gray goose (genus Anser)

Translations

Chen caerulescens

• Ahtna: tsʼenlazeni
• Breton: gwaz-erc'hegi
• Bulgarian: снежна гъска f (snežna gǎska)
• Danish: snegås c
• Dutch: sneeuwgans (nl) f
• Faroese: snjógás f
• Finnish: lumihanhi (fi)
• French: oie des neiges (fr) f, oie blanche (fr) f (Canada)
• 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
• Navajo: chį́į́shłigaii ałchinígíí
• Northern Sami: muohtačuonjá
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: snøgås (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: snøgås f

• Polish: śnieżyca duża f, gęś śnieżna f
• Portuguese: ganso-das-neves m
• Russian: бе́лый гусь m (bélyj gusʹ)
• Spanish: ánsar nival m, ganso blanco m, ganso nival m
• Swedish: snögås c

Further reading

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