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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.

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Crustacean 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous.

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Goose 76% connected

Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.

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Cirriped 92% connected

One of the Cirripedia.

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Actinozoan noun · 86% connection

sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed

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Anapsid noun · 86% connection

primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles

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Anapsid reptile noun · 86% connection

primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles

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Arachnid noun · 86% connection

air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs

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Arachnoid noun · 86% connection

air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs

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Arthropod noun · 86% connection

invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin

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Asian horseshoe crab noun · 86% connection

horseshoe crab of the coast of eastern Asia

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Centipede noun · 86% connection

chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being…

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used in some classifications; includes the orders Xiphosura and Eurypterida

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Cnidarian noun · 86% connection

radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp a…

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Coelenterate noun · 86% connection

radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp a…

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Diapsid noun · 86% connection

reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye

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Diapsid reptile noun · 86% connection

reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye

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Diapsida noun · 86% connection

used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archos…

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Eurypterid noun · 86% connection

large extinct scorpion-like arthropod considered related to horseshoe crabs

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mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

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mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

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False scorpion noun · 86% connection

small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion

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Acorn-shell noun · 78% connection

One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle.

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Ambergris noun · 78% connection

A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secreti…

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Analogue noun · 78% connection

A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…

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Ark shell unknown · 78% connection

A marine bivalve shell belonging to the genus Arca and its allies.

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Boom noun · 78% connection

A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating aw…

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Borer noun · 78% connection

A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.

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Buoyancy noun · 78% connection

The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a fl…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cirriped, crustacean, adhering, rocks, floating.
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Carpenter noun · 78% connection

An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.

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Crayfish noun · 78% connection

Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very d…

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Cystidea n. pl. · 78% connection

An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cirriped, crustacean, adhering, rocks, floating.
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Echiuroidea n. pl. · 78% connection

A division of Annelida which includes the genus Echiurus and allies. They are often classed among the Gephyrea, and called the armed G…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cirriped, crustacean, adhering, rocks, floating.
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Floating adjective · 78% connection

Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.

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