(n) 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

barnacle goose

(n) European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north, Syn. barnacle, Branta leucopsis

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)

Barnacle

n. [ Prob. from E. barnacle a kind of goose, which was popularly supposed to grow from this shellfish; but perh. from LL. bernacula for pernacula, dim. of perna ham, sea mussel; cf. Gr. pe`rna ham. Cf. F. bernacle, barnacle, E. barnacle a goose; and Ir. bairneach, barneach, limpet. ] (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Barnacle eater (Zool.), the orange filefish. --
Barnacle scale (Zool.), a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form. [ 1913 Webster ]

Barnacle

n. [ See Bernicle. ] A bernicle goose. [ 1913 Webster ]

Barnacle

n. [ OE. bernak, bernacle; cf. OF. bernac, and Prov. F. (Berri) berniques, spectacles. ] 1. pl. (Far.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him. [ Formerly used in the sing. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The barnacles . . . give pain almost equal to that of the switch. Youatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers. [ Cant, Eng. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

barnacled

adj. 1. covered with barnacles. the barnacled hull of a wrecked ship [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Japanese-English: EDICT Dictionary EDICT JP-EN Dictionary

烏帽子貝

[えぼしがい, eboshigai] (n) goose barnacle

亀の手;龜の手(oK)

[かめのて, kamenote] (n) barnacle

袋虫

[ふくろむし;フクロムシ, fukuromushi ; fukuromushi] (n) (uk) rhizocephala (parasitic barnacles)

富士壺

[ふじつぼ;フジツボ, fujitsubo ; fujitsubo] (n) (uk) acorn barnacle (Balanomorpha spp.)

German-English: TU-Chemnitz DING Dictionary DING DE-EN Dictionary

Klette { f }; anhängliche Person { f } | wie eine Klette an jdm. hängen

barnacle | to stick to sb. like a limpet

Weißwangengans { f }; Weißwangengans { f } [ ornith. ]

Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis)

Seepocke { f } [ zool. ] | Seepocken { pl }

barnacle | barnacles

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