What is the meaning of barnacle?

Marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces.
- synonyms: cirriped, cirripede
European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north.
- synonyms: barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis

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APA	WordNet. (2010). barnacle. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/barnacle/definitions/1197517
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