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Word | Barnacle |
Italian Meaning | cirripede, balano |
marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces / 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. / a marine crustacean with an external shell, which attaches itself permanently to a variety of surfaces. Barnacles feed by filtering particles from the water using their modified feathery legs., | |
Usage | ⇒ Many species, including lobsters, crayfish, barnacles , and crabs are important to human economies, some very much so. |
Synonyms | freeloader, leech, parasite, bloodsucker, cerriped, hanger-on, limpet, sponge, barnacle goose, cerripede, crustacean, remora, shellfish, sponger, Branta leucopsis, adherent, adhesive, beat, bramble, briar, |
Antonyms | unscrew, |
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