Barnacle

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1. Noun

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

A bernicle goose.

3. Noun

An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.

4. Unclassified

Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.

5. Noun

marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
Vocabulary classified under Biology

6. Noun

European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
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