anserous
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Anserous — An ser*ous, a. [L. anser a goose.] Resembling a goose; silly; simple. Sydney Smith. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
anserous — an·ser·ous … English syllables
anserous — a. like or pertaining to a goose; foolish … Dictionary of difficult words
anserous — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ rəs adjective Etymology: Latin anser goose + English ous : like a goose : stupid, silly compare anserine I … Useful english dictionary
anserine — /an seuh ruyn , rin/, adj. 1. of or pertaining to the subfamily Anserinae, of the family Anatidae, comprising the true geese. 2. resembling a goose; gooselike. 3. stupid; foolish; silly. Also, anserous. [1830 40; < L anserinus of, pertaining to… … Universalium
aquiline — Synonyms and related words: Roman nosed, altricial, anserine, anserous, aquiline nosed, avian, avicular, beak nosed, beak shaped, beaked, bill like, bill shaped, billed, birdlike, birdy, clawlike, columbine, crookbilled, crooked, crooknosed,… … Moby Thesaurus
avian — Synonyms and related words: altricial, anserine, anserous, aquiline, avicular, birdlike, birdy, columbine, dovelike, goosy, hawklike, nesting, nidicolous, nidificant, oscine, passerine, psittacine, rasorial … Moby Thesaurus
dovelike — Synonyms and related words: altricial, angelic, anserine, anserous, aquiline, avian, avicular, birdlike, birdy, blameless, broken, chastened, childlike, clear, columbine, domesticated, faultless, gentle, goosy, guiltless, hawklike, housebroken,… … Moby Thesaurus
goosy — Synonyms and related words: allergic, altricial, anaphylactic, anserine, anserous, aquiline, avian, avicular, bashful, birdlike, birdy, columbine, cowardly, delicate, diffident, dovelike, empathetic, empathic, fearful, fearing, fearsome, hawklike … Moby Thesaurus
nesting — Synonyms and related words: abiding, abode, altricial, anserine, anserous, aquiline, avian, avicular, birdlike, birdy, cohabitation, columbine, commorancy, dovelike, dwelling, goosy, habitancy, habitation, hawklike, inhabitancy, inhabitation,… … Moby Thesaurus
