|  barnacle 
  
 
 1. 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
 • Hypernyms:
 crustacean
 • Hyponyms:
 acorn barnacle, rock barnacle, Balanus balanoides, goose barnacle, gooseneck barnacle, Lepas fascicularis
 • Member Holonyms:
 Cirripedia, subclass Cirripedia
 2. European goose smaller than the brant;
 breeds in the far north
 • Syn:
 barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis
 • Hypernyms:
 goose
 • Member Holonyms:
 Branta, genus Branta
 
 
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