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/bɹænt/ · noun
(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?
Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.
Your bonnie brow was brent.
Use brant when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Brant means (Canada, US) Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla..
Common synonyms include brent, brent goose, brant goose.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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?
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