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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
barnacle goose

▶noun a goose with a white face and black neck, breeding in arctic tundra. [Branta leucopsis.]

– origin C18: from the former belief that the bird hatched from barnacles.

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