blue goose

American  

noun

1. a dark color phase of the snow goose, Chen caerulescens, of North America.

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blue goose British  

noun

1. a variety of the snow goose that has a bluish-grey body and white head and neck

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Etymology

Origin of blue goose

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Example Sentences

Audubon experts are satisfied that the blue goose is one American wildfowl that has not decreased in numbers in recent years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two years ago he was searching for blue goose eggs, and Dr. J. Dewey Soper of the Canadian Department of the Interior found them first.

From Time Magazine Archive

A man came from Malden to buy a blue goose.

From The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes by Wright, Blanche Fisher

That night when I went home from school mother was worrying over the blue goose.

From Laddie; a true blue story by Stratton-Porter, Gene

Beneath the spring of the rainbow, for the benefit of those who could not read, was a huge blue goose floating aimlessly in a sheet of bluer water.

From The Blue Goose by Nason, Frank Lewis