Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a goose; pertaining to the Anseriformes, a group of birds which contains the ducks and geese.
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- adjective ornithology Of or pertaining to
birds of the familyAnseriformes includingducks ,geese ,swans , andscreamers .
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Examples
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Flighted and flightless individuals are known to have also occurred in some recently extinct anseriform species, incidentally.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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A phylogenetic analysis of Recent anseriform genera using morphological characters.
The Madagascar pochard returns Darren Naish 2006
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Remiornis and the anseriform Gastornis, meaning that - strange as it might seem - Paleocene Paris was home to three highly distinct, gigantic flightless birds.
knitandpurl commented on the word anseriform
"Occasionally he paused to buff his nails, perking his chest with anseriform hauteur."
Oreo by Fran Ross, p 147 of the New Directions paperback edition
October 7, 2015