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Definition of Barnacle goose

1. Noun. European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north.

Definition of Barnacle goose

1. Noun. A black and white species of bird from the northern hemisphere, scientifically known as the ''Branta leucopsis'' ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Barnacle Goose

Literary usage of Barnacle goose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"THE BREEDING HABITS OF THE barnacle goose. BY FCR JOURDAIN, MA, ... the season of 1921, all that was definitely known of the breeding of the barnacle goose, ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"There is in England a well-known species of goose called the barnacle-goose. " It is a winter migrant on the east coast; its summer home, where it breeds, ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"There is in England a well-known species of goose called the barnacle-goose. " It is a winter migrant on the east coast ; its summer home, where it breeds, ..."

4. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"The barnacle goose is a wanderer from the Old World. One is recorded as having been killed at North Chatham, November 1, 1885, and mounted by N. ..."

5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1882)
"The bird which was said, in both Ireland and Scotland, to be sprung from the barnacle, is the still so-called "barnacle goose" (A»as /xco^s/s), ..."

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