chen
chen — noun
- chensingular
- chensplural
1. a scientific name, used especially in older bird books, for a group of geese inc
1.名詞C2
釋義
a scientific name, used especially in older bird books, for a group of geese including the snow goose, whose adult birds are mainly white
例句
The field guide lists the snow goose under the genus Chen.
technical noun in a classification statement
Bao copied the name Chen beside a white goose sketch.
At the museum, the old label still uses Chen for white geese.
Nkechi found Chen in a bird book about Arctic geese.
Older science papers often place snow geese in Chen instead of Anser.
文法句型
the genus Chen
place + bird species + in Chen
用法筆記
Used mostly in technical or older bird-classification writing. Many modern sources place these geese in the genus Anser instead, so Chen often appears in historical labels or taxonomic discussion rather than everyday English.
常見錯誤
❌We saw three chen by the lake.
✅We saw three geese by the lake.
💡chen is a rare scientific genus name, not the usual everyday word for the birds.
❌Most modern bird guides put snow geese in Chen.
✅Some older bird guides put snow geese in Chen.
💡many current guides use Anser instead, so Chen often sounds dated or specialist.