brant
noun
any of several species of small, dark-colored geese of the genus Branta, especially B. bernicla, breeding in high northern latitudes and migrating south in the autumn.
brants
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pluralof brant.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It concluded that both would have “major” impacts on brants, tundra swans, emperor geese, bears, fish and, potentially, caribou.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2017
But today, the numbers have switched: About 70 percent of the black brants now molt along the coast, having discovered the recent expansion of a new rich food source along the Beaufort Sea.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 7, 2014
The hunters all returned hungry, and drenched with rain; having seen neither deer nor elk, and the swans and brants too shy to be approached.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch
The ponds in the low grounds on each side of the river are resorted to by vast quantities of fowls, such as swans, geese, brants, cranes, storks, white gulls, cormorants, and plover.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch
By and bye—for they found she was heavier than they expected—the brants let the woman fall too.
From The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Andrew Lang
