What does BARNACLE mean?
Definitions for BARNACLE
ˈbɑr nə kəlbar·na·cle
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Princeton's WordNet
barnacle, cirriped, cirripedenoun
marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
barnacle goose, barnacle, Branta leucopsisnoun
European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
Wiktionary
barnaclenoun
A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
barnaclenoun
The barnacle goose.
barnaclenoun
In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
barnaclenoun
On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
barnaclenoun
An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.
barnaclenoun
A nickname for spectacles.
barnaclenoun
A good job, or snack easily obtained.
barnacleverb
To connect with or attach.
barnacleverb
To press close against something.
Etymology: From barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, from bernaque, from (compare brennig, báirneac), from (compare barenn); for sense development, compare λέπας which gave λεπάς.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Barnaclenoun
Etymology: probably of bearn, Sax. a child, and aac, Sax. an oak.
Surely it is beyond even an atheist’s credulity and impudence, to affirm that the first men might grow upon trees, as the story goes about barnacles; or perhaps might be the lice of some vast prodigious animals, whose species is now extinct. Richard Bentley, Sermons.
And from the most refin’d of saints,
As naturally grow miscreants,
As barnacles turn solan geese
In th’ islands of the Orcades. Hudibras, p. iii. c. ii.
Wikipedia
Barnacle
Barnacles are a type of arthropod constituting the subclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and are hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tidal waters, typically in erosive settings. They are sessile (nonmobile) and most are suspension feeders, but those in infraclass Rhizocephala are highly specialized parasites on crustaceans. They have four nektonic (active swimming) larval stages. Around 1,000 barnacle species are currently known. The name Cirripedia is Latin, meaning "curl-footed". The study of barnacles is called cirripedology.
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barnacle
A barnacle is a type of marine crustacean that is known for its hard protective outer shell. It typically attaches itself permanently to a variety of surfaces, including the hulls of ships, rocks, and the skin of larger marine organisms. Some species of barnacles are often considered pests due to their tendency to infest and damage man-made structures. Barnacles feed by filtering nutrients out of the water with their feathery legs.
Webster Dictionary
Barnaclenoun
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
Barnaclenoun
a bernicle goose
Barnaclenoun
an instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him
Barnacle
spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers
Wikidata
Barnacle
A barnacle is a type of arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tidal waters, typically in erosive settings. They are sessile suspension feeders, and have two nektonic larval stages. Around 1,220 barnacle species are currently known. The name "Cirripedia" is Latin, meaning "curl-footed".
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Barnacle
bär′na-kl, n. a shellfish which adheres to rocks and the bottoms of ships: a companion who sticks closely.—n. Bar′nacle-goose, a species of wild goose belonging to the Northern seas, so called from a notion that they were produced from the barnacles mentioned. [O. Fr. bernaque—Low L. bernaca; by some referred to a supposed form pernacula, dim. of perna, a kind of shellfish; by others to a Celtic origin.]
Barnacle
bär′na-kl, n. an instrument consisting of two branches joined by a hinge, placed on the nose of horses to keep them quiet: (pl.) a colloquial term for 'spectacles.'—adj. Bar′nacled. [O. Fr. bernac, of which bernacle seems to be a dim. form. The sense of 'spectacles' has been traced to O. Fr. bericle, eye-glass—berillus, beryl; but this is improbable.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
barnacle
(Lepas anatifera). A species of shell-fish, often found sticking by its pedicle to the bottom of ships, doing no other injury than deadening the way a little: "Barnacles, termed soland geese In th' islands of the Orcades."--Hudibras. They were formerly supposed to produce the barnacle-goose! (vide old cyclopedias): the poet, however, was too good a naturalist to believe this, but here, as in many other places, he means to banter some of the papers which were published by the first establishers of the Royal Society. The shell is compressed and multivalve. The tentacula are long and pectinated like a feather, whence arose the fable of their becoming geese. They belong to the order of Cirripeds.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BARNACLE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Barnacle is ranked #130610 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Barnacle surname appeared 130 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Barnacle.
99.9% or 130 total occurrences were White.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of BARNACLE in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of BARNACLE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of BARNACLE in a Sentence
Barnacle shells ... can tell us valuable information about the water conditions under which they were formed.
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- البرنقيلArabic
- морски жълъдBulgarian
- percebeCatalan, Valencian
- barnacleDanish
- Seepocke, Rankenfußkrebs, RankenfüßerGerman
- λεπάς, ανατίφηGreek
- barnacleEsperanto
- percebeSpanish
- انبارPersian
- huulipuristin, siimajalkainen, herkkupala, fiksaus, kakkulat, rillitFinnish
- pouce-piedFrench
- sciobólIrish
- giùranScottish Gaelic
- percebeGalician
- बार्नेक्लHindi
- kullancsHungarian
- teritipIndonesian
- זיפרגלייםHebrew
- 富士壺, フジツボJapanese
- ಕಣಜKannada
- 따개비Korean
- дениз өрдөгүKyrgyz
- barnacleLatin
- tiotio, pātitotitoMāori
- zeepokDutch
- wąsonóg, pąklaPolish
- cracaPortuguese
- морская уточкаRussian
- havstulpanSwedish
- вусонякаUkrainian
- بارناکلUrdu
- 藤壺Chinese
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