anatiferous

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  1. Producing geese; that is, producing the cirripeds formerly called tree-geese or goose-mussels, which adhere to submerged wood or stone, but were formerly supposed to grow on trees, and then to drop off into the water and turn into geese: an epithet of the barnacle, Lepas anatifera, and of the trees upon which it was supposed to grow. See Anatifa, Lepas. Anatiferous trees, whose corruption breaks forth into barnacles. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. (1646), p. 133.

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  1. from New Latin anatifer, anatiferus, from Latin anas (anat-), a duck (see Anas), + -fer, from ferre = English bear.
 

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