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brants

brants is the plural of brant.

Meaning of brant

Noun

brant (plural brants or brant)

  1. (Canada, US) Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.
    • I have given you roe and reindeer, / I have given you brant and beaver, / Filled the marshes full of wild-fowl, / Filled the rivers full of fishes; / Why then are you not contented? / Why then will you hunt each other?1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Book I”, in The Song of Hiawatha

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What is brants the plural of?
Brants is the plural of brant.

Words near brants in the dictionary

  1. Brantley County
  2. Brantner
  3. Brantners
  4. Branton
  5. Brantons
  6. brants
  7. Brantville
  8. Brantwood
  9. branula
  10. branular
  11. branulas

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