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Snow Goose

Definition: Snow Goose

Snow Goose

Noun

1. Blue goose in the white color phase.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Snow Goose

English words defined with "snow goose": Wavey, White brand, White-fronted goose. (references)

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Modern Usage: Snow Goose

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Boy and the Snow Goose (1984)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Snow Goose

DomainTitle

Books

  • Snow Goose and Other Legends (reference)

  • Song of the North Wind: A Story of the Snow Goose (reference)

  • The Flight of the Snow Goose (reference)

  • The Monarch, the Snow Goose and the Butterfly Tree (reference)

  • The Science of Snow Goose Hunting (reference)

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Music

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Image Slideshow: Snow Goose

Photos:
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Photo Album: Snow Goose

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Acrylic painting of a Snow Goose flying over a marsh at dawn's first light by Daniel Smith, 523 Lexington Drive, Bozeman, Montana 59715. A freelance artist who has earned many honors in the wildlife art world, from winning numerous State stamp design competitions to illustrating pages of National Geographic's Guide to North American Birds. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Snow Goose

AuthorQuotation

Lao-Tzu

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Snow Goose

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

snow goose

82

snow goose decoy

5
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Modern Translation: Snow Goose

Language Translations for "snow goose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Blackfoot

  

itsiinohksikanikimm. (various references)

   

Danish

  

snegaas (Canada goose). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

sneeuwgans (Canada goose). (various references)

   

French

  

oie des neiges. (various references)

   

German

  

Schneegans (snowgoose). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χιονόχηνα (Canada goose). (various references)

   

Italian

  

oca iperborea (Canada goose), oca delle nevi (Canada goose). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owsnay oosegay

   

Portuguese

  

ganso-das-neves (Canada goose). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ánsar nival (snowgoose). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

дика арктична гуска. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Snow Goose

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Anser caerulescens, RM:auca alva. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Snow Goose

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-n-o-o-o-s-s-w"

-2 letters: gossoon.

-3 letters: gnoses, gooses, nooses, segnos, sowens, swoons.

-4 letters: enows, gesso, goons, goose, gowns, noose, noses, owsen, segno, segos, snogs, snows, sones, songs, swoon.

-5 letters: egos, engs, enow, eons, gens, goes, gone, goon, goos, gown, ness, news, noes, nogs, nose, nows, ones, oses, owes, owns, owse, sego, segs, sewn, sews, snog, snow, sone, song.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Snow Goose


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6E 6F 77      47 6F 6F 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01000111 01101111 01101111 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#110 &#111 &#119 &#32 &#71 &#111 &#111 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006E 006F 0077      0047 006F 006F 0073 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5380818924181818571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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