barnacle goose

Meaning

Noun

• A black and white species of bird within the family Anatidae from the northern hemisphere, Branta leucopsis.

Origin

• Because this goose nests in the far north, Europeans never saw its chicks, and invented a theory that the goose barnacle is the larval form of the barnacle goose.
• Image:Branta leucopsis.jpg|thumb|right|A barnacle goose.