Thesaurus: barnacle

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1. n. 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. n. A bernicle goose.
3. n. An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.
4. sing. Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.
5. n. marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
6. n. European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
7. 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. Barnacle eater (Zoöl.), the orange filefish. -- Barnacle scale (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form. A bernicle goose. 1. pl. (Far.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him. Note: [Formerly used in the sing.] The barnacles . . . give pain almost equal to that of the switch. Youatt. 2. pl. Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers. [Cant, Eng.] Dickens.
8. 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). SeeCirripedia, and Goose barnacle. Barnacle eater (Zoöl.), the orangefilefish.-- Barnacle scale (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ceroplastescirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. Thefemale scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form.
9. n:100 n. marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces