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- noun Plural form of
bernacle .
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Examples
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Some call them _clakes_, and _soland geese_, and some puffins; others _bernacles_, because they resemble them.
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Upon the south-east side of Aken's Island, there was thrown up a confused mass of different substances; including a quantity of pumice stone, several kinds of coral, five or six species of shells, skeletons of fish and sea snakes, the fruit of the pandanus, and a piece of cocoa-nut shell without bernacles or any thing to indicate that it had been long in the water; but there were no marks of shipwreck.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794
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80 OMMAXA. of relygyon, (continues the Polycrony - eon,) ete bernacles on fastynge dayes, by cause they ben not engendred of flcsshe, wherin as me thynketh they ene.
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