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Anser [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In zoology, the name of the goose, whether tame or wild. The domestic goose is the gray-lag or wild goose, domesticated.

2. In astronomy, a small star, in the milky way, between the swan and eagle.

Anserated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.

Anseres [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A Linnaean order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

Anseriformes [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms.

Anserine [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Resembling the skin of a goose; uneven; as, an anserine skin.

2. Pertaining to the ansers.

Anserine [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose.

2. Pertaining to the Anseres.

Anserous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Resembling a goose; silly; simple.

Ansers [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In Linne's system, the third order of aves or fowls, whose characteristics are a smooth bill, broadest at the point, covered with a smooth skin, and furnished with teeth. The tongue is fleshy, and the toes are webbed or palmated. It includes all the web-footed water fowls, with legs and feet adapted to swimming.