BARNACLE GOOSE


Meaning of BARNACLE GOOSE in English

a wild goose, Branta leucopsis, of northern Europe and Greenland.

[ 1760-70; earlier barnacle, ME bernacle; cf. MF bernacle, NL bernacula, all deriv. of earlier ME bernak, bernekke, AL bernaca, OF bernaque, of uncert. orig. ]

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