A Hopeless Search for Something Is a __ Chase

This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from Culinary School, Group 2218, Puzzle 3 (Contamination).

Question is: A Hopeless Search for Something Is a __ Chase

and the answer is: WILDGOOSE

Word Meaning:

WILD GOOSE — any of many species of wildlife goose, such as the greylag goose or the Canada goose, whose wedge fly in a wedge or V form, or cuneiform, as opposed to the domesticated goose that would not fly.

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