barnacle goose
noun
1- a goose with a white face and black neck, breeding in the arctic tundra of Greenland, Spitsbergen, and Novaya Zemlya白颊黑雁。
1.1
- Branta leucopsis, family Anatidae.拉丁名 Branta leucopsis,雁形目鸭科。
词源
mid 18th cent.: see BARNACLE.