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1. (n.) barnacle
any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, having a shell made up of separate plates, being either stalked
2. barnacle
one that clings tenaciously.
Etymology: (1580–85; perh. a conflation of barnaclebarnacle goose with Cornish brennyk limpet (or Celtic cognates))
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) 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
2. (noun) barnacle goose, barnacle, Branta leucopsis
European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) barnacle
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
2. (noun) barnacle
a bernicle goose
3. (noun) barnacle
an instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him
4. barnacle
spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers
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Sense: a kind of small shellfish that sticks to rocks and the bottoms of ships.
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 Afrikaans: eendmossel |
 Arabic: البَرْنَقيل: حَيَوانات بَ |
 Bulgarian: малко ракообразно животно |
 Brazilian: craca |
 Czech: vilejš stvolnatý |
 German: die Entenmuschel |
 Danish: rur |
 Greek: πεταλίδα |
 Spanish: percebe |
 Estonian: nuivähk |
 Farsi: نوعی نرم تن صدف دار؛ سرخا |
 Finnish: kotilo |
 French: bernacle |
 Hebrew: בָּעַל-חָיִים הַנִצמַד לְ |
 Hindi: दाब |
 Croatian: lupar |
 Hungarian: kacsakagyló |
 Indonesian: teritip, remis |
 Icelandic: hrúðurkarl |
 Italian: crostaceo dei cirripedi |
 Japanese: ふじつぼ |
 Korean: 코집게 |
 Lithuanian: polipas |
 Latvian: jūraspīlīte |
 Malay: teritip |
 Dutch: eendemossel |
 Norwegian: rankefotinger, andeskjell |
 Polish: pąkla |
 Persian: نوعی نرم تن صدف دار؛ سرخا |
 Pashto: يو ډول كوچنى او بنى ژوى چ |
 Portuguese: lapa |
 Romanian: (tip de) scoică |
 Russian: морская уточка |
 Slovak: fúzonôžka |
 Slovenian: rakec vitičnjak; lopar |
 Serbian: lopar |
 Swedish: långhals |
 Thai: เพรียงที่เกาะตามวัตถุใต้น |
 Turkish: yapışıkça |
 Taiwanese: 藤壺 |
 Ukrainian: вусоногий рак |
 Urdu: بارنکل مچھلی |
 Vietnamese: con hàu |
 Chinese: 藤壶 |
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