ヒシクイ

noun

bean goose (Anser fabalis)

A species of goose; the name is usually written in katakana as ヒシクイ. The kanji 菱食 is ateji based on the bird's habit of eating water chestnuts (菱).

• ヒシクイは冬ふゆに日本にほんへ渡わたってくる大おお型がたのガンです。

  The bean goose is a large goose that migrates to Japan in winter.

• 田たんぼでヒシクイの群むれを見みつけた。

  I found a flock of bean geese in the rice field.