Found 3 items, similar to Barnacle.
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Definition: barnacle
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: barnacle
barnacle
n 1: marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages;
free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and
live attached to submerged surfaces [syn:
cerriped,
cerripede]
2: European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far
north [syn:
barnacle goose,
Branta leucopsis]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Barnacle
Barnacle
\Bar"na*cle\, n. [See
Bernicle.]
A bernicle goose.
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Barnacle
\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.]
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The barnacles . . . give pain almost equal to
that of the switch. --Youatt.
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2. pl. Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the
barnacles used by farriers. [Cant, Eng.] --Dickens.
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Barnacle
\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. pe`rna 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.
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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.
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