Dictionary & Thesaurus

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(noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces

Synonyms: cerriped, cerripede

Related Words: Balanus balanoides, Lepas fascicularis, acorn barnacle, crustacean, goose barnacle, rock barnacle

2.

(noun) European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north

Synonyms: Branta leucopsis, barnacle goose

Related Words: goose