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Barnacle
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What's The Definition Of Barnacle?
[n] European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
[n] marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces Synonyms | Synonyms for Barnacle: barnacle goose | Branta leucopsis | cerriped | cerripede Related Terms | Find terms related to Barnacle: adherent | adhesive | beat | bloodsucker | bramble | brier | bulldog | burr | cement | deadbeat | decal | decalcomania | freeloader | glue | gunk | hanger-on | leech | limpet | lounge lizard | molasses | mucilage | parasite | paste | plaster | prickle | remora | smell-feast | spiv | sponge | sponger | sticker | sucker | syrup | thorn See Also | acorn barnacle | Balanus balanoides | Branta | Cirripedia | crustacean | genus Branta | goose | goose barnacle | Lepas fascicularis | rock barnacle | subclass Cirripedia Barnacle In Webster's Dictionary \Bar"na*cle\, n. [Prob. from E. barnacle a kind of
goose, which was popularly supposed to grow from this
shellfish; but perh. from LL. bernacula for pernacula, dim.
of perna ham, sea mussel; cf. Gr. ? ham Cf. F. bernacle,
barnacle, E. barnacle a goose; and Ir. bairneach, barneach,
limpet.] (Zo["o]l.)
Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber,
ships, etc., esp.
(a) the sessile species (genus {Balanus} and allies), and
(b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus {Lepas} and
allies). See {Cirripedia}, and {Goose barnacle}.
{Barnacle eater} (Zo["o]l.), the orange filefish.
{Barnacle scale} (Zo["o]l.), a bark louse ({Ceroplastes
cirripediformis}) of the orange and quince trees in
Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile
barnacle in form.
\Bar"na*cle\, n. [See {Bernicle}.] A bernicle goose. \Bar"na*cle\, n. [OE. bernak, bernacle; cf. OF. bernac, and Prov. F. (Berri) berniques, spectacles.] 1. pl. (Far.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him. Note: [Formerly used in the sing.] The barnacles . . . give pain almost equal to that of the switch. --Youatt. 2. pl. Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers. [Cant, Eng.] --Dickens. |
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