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bernicle |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bernicle \Ber"ni*cle\, n. [OE. bernak bernacle; cf OF bernac prob. fr LL bernacula for hibernicula bernicula fr Hibernia; the birds coming from Hibernia or Ireland. Cf 1st {Barnacle}.] A bernicle goose. [Written also {barnacle}.] {Bernicle goose} (Zo["o]l.), 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}.
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