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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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
Attachment
noun · 78% connection
Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
Balanoid
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
Barnacle
noun · 78% connection
Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
Brail
noun · 78% connection
Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
Broad
noun · 78% connection
A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
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: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
Cirripedia
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
Comatulid
noun · 78% connection
free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
Copperworm
noun · 78% connection
The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
Counterflory
adjective · 78% connection
Adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said of any…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
Floating
adjective · 78% connection
Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
Footstalk
noun · 78% connection
The peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
Foul
superl. · 78% connection
Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; pollu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
Grouper
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidae, as the red grouper, or brown snappe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.
Ichneumon
noun · 78% connection
Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian spec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, species, genus, pedunculated, barnacles.