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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bar′nacle goose′, - Birdsa wild goose, Branta leucopsis, of northern Europe and Greenland.
- 1760–70; earlier barnacle, Middle English bernacle; compare Middle French bernacle, Neo-Latin bernacula, all derivative of earlier Middle English bernak, bernekke, Anglo-Latin bernaca, Old French bernaque, of uncertain origin, originally
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: barnacle goose n - a N European goose, Branta leucopsis, that has a black-and-white head and body and grey wings
Etymology: 13th Century bernekke, related to Late Latin bernaca, from the belief that the goose developed from a shellfish; ultimate origin obscure |