| barnacle | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. barnacle, cirriped, cirripede | marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces. |
| ~ crustacean | any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton. |
| ~ cirripedia, subclass cirripedia | barnacles. |
| ~ acorn barnacle, balanus balanoides, rock barnacle | barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones. |
| ~ goose barnacle, gooseneck barnacle, lepas fascicularis | stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers. |
| n. (animal) | 2. barnacle, barnacle goose, branta leucopsis | European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north. |
| ~ goose | web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks. |
| ~ branta, genus branta | wild geese. |
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