Cape Barren goose

noun

An Australian species of goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiae.

Meanings

nounCape Barren goose (plural Cape Barren geese)

plural Cape Barren geese

  1. An Australian species of goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiae.

    Another species that seems to have been saved from immediate danger is the curious but handsome Cape Barren goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae) which survives on islands off the southern coast of Australia.

    2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 82

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