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Gerarde, who is doubtless Butler's authority, says elsewhere, that "in the north parts of Scotland, and the islands called Orcades," there are certain trees whereon these tree-geese and barnacles abound.
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(pl. noun) - A name given to barnacles, from their supposed metamorphosis into geese.
--Robert Nares' Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859
January 17, 2018