Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AN'SERS
AN'SERS, n.
In Linnæus's system, the third order of Aves or fowls, whose characteristics are a smooth bill, broadest at the point, covered with a smooth skin, and furnished with teeth. The tongue is fleshy, and the toes are webbed or palmated. It includes all the web-footed water fowls, with legs and feet adapted to swimming.
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