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Wavey

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Wavey
    (Zoöl) The snow goose.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) wavey
    A goose of the genus Chen; a snow-goose.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Wavey
    waw′vi the snow-goose.
Usage in the news

INTERVIEWS Hear Fergus & Geronimo 's New-Wavey 'No Parties'. spin.com

Wavey Line Charts for Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, DR. marinelink.com

INTERVIEWS Hear Fergus & Geronimo's New- Wavey 'No Parties'. spin.com

Usage in literature

I'd like to go up early and return in the fall, and maybe get some wavey shooting. "The Lure of the Labrador Wild" by Dillon Wallace

With him we make the fall fishery and shoot our winter's supply of waveys and southward-flying cranes. "The New North" by Agnes Deans Cameron

How does the wavey know where to find the rush-grown inland pools? "The Story of the Trapper" by A. C. Laut

Like the Horned Wavey, they never fly with the lead of the coast, but are always seen to come from the Westward. "A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772" by Samuel Hearne