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 bar·na·cle /ˈbɑrnɪkəl/
 一種北極鵝,藤壺

 Bar·na·cle n.  Zool. 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 Zool., the orange filefish.
 Barnacle scale Zool., a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form.

 Bar·na·cle, n.  A bernicle goose.

 Bar·na·cle, n.
 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.]
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 Ber·ni·cle n.  A bernicle goose. [Written also barnacle.]
 Bernicle goose Zool., a goose (Branta leucopsis), of Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related species. See Anatifa and Cirripedia.
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 barnacle
      n 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: cerriped, cerripede]
      2: European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far
         north [syn: barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis]