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: cirriped , cirripede ]

  2. European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north

    [ Syn: barnacle goose , branta leucopsis ]

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