What is the meaning of Brant?

Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.

Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 70, 77.

Kear, Janet (2005): Ducks, Geese and Swans: General chapters, species accounts (Anhima to Salvadorina), p. 306

Sandrock & Prior (2014): The Scientific Nomenclature of Birds in the Upper Midwest, p. 25

steep, precipitous.

smooth; unwrinkled

fire

burning piece of wood, brand

firewood, fuel

burn (mark on the skin or something else)

intransitive simple past of brenne

tall, high, steep

Alternative form of branc

steepness

precipice

fire, blaze

gangrene

grain smut

steep (sharply inclined)

a steeply sloping side of a landform, a precipice

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