ember-goose
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Calque of Norwegian emmer-gaas.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ember-goose (plural ember-geese)
- The great northern loon, Gavia immer.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 406:
- There is the distant cry of an embergoose, and then the moon slips up out of the grasp of the trees.