barnacle goose
a wild goose, Branta leucopsis, of northern Europe and Greenland.
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How to use barnacle goose in a sentence
God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain.
Ulysses | James JoyceThis barnacle-goose tree was a great article of faith with our ancestors in the Middle Ages.
Myth-Land | F. Edward HulmeNevertheless, in France, the barnacle goose may be eaten on fast-days by virtue of this old belief in its marine origin.
The barnacle goose is a well-known bird, and is eaten on fast-days in France, by virtue of this old belief in its marine origin.
Eccentricities of the Animal Creation. | John TimbsSome would have him to be a barnacle goose, others a dab-chick or coot—none of which can fairly be classed as aviculæ small birds.
Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln | Charles L. Marson
British Dictionary definitions for barnacle goose
a N European goose, Branta leucopsis, that has a black-and-white head and body and grey wings
a former name for brent goose
Origin of barnacle goose
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