greylagとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• graylag

語源

From grey (“colour”) + lag (“old name for a goose, derived from the call used to move such animals along”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪlæɡ/

名詞

greylag (複数形 greylags)

1. A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak.
   • 1967, Jeffery G. Harrison, A Wealth of Wildfowl^[1], page 150:

     Since the war, migrant greylags have virtually deserted the Duddon estuary, so it is a source of great satisfaction that the WAGBI greylags have taken to roosting on the sands in mid-winter, flighting to and from the reserve.

   • 2010, M. Owen, Greylag Goose, Peter Lack (editor), The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland, page 74,

     Greylags used to concentrate on British estuaries, eating roots of rushes and sedges, as they do in other parts of their range.

   • 2012, Adam Watson, Ian Francis, Birds in North-East Scotland Then and Now, page 11,

     Earlier, 250 more had flown to Rattray beach, nearly all pinkfeet although I saw four greylags and heard others.

同意語

• (Anser anser): greylag goose

参考

• Anser
• Anser anser on Wikimedia Commons.