Bernicle
Bernicle ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Old English bernak, bernacle; compare Old French bernac; prob. from Late Latin bernacula for hibernicula, bernicula, from Hibernia; the birds coming from Hibernia or Ireland. Compare 1st Barnacle.]
A bernicle goose.
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Bernicle goose (Zoology) , a goose (Branta leucopsis), of Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related species. See Anatifa and Cirripedia.