(n)Italian sculptor and architect of the baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680), Syn.Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
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n. [ OE. bernak, bernacle; cf. OF. bernac; prob. fr. LL. bernacula for hibernicula, bernicula, fr. Hibernia; the birds coming from Hibernia or Ireland. Cf. 1st Barnacle. ] A bernicle goose. [ Written also barnacle. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Bernicle goose (Zool.), a goose (Branta leucopsis), of Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related species. See Anatifa and Cirripedia. [ 1913 Webster ]