Definition of barnacle in English:

barnacle

noun ˈbɑːnək(ə)lˈbɑrnək(ə)l

1A marine crustacean with an external shell, which attaches itself permanently to a surface and feeds by filtering particles from the water using its modified feathery legs.
Class Cirripedia. See acorn barnacle, goose barnacle
Example sentencesExamples
- Therefore, barnacles have only a very little effective contact surface on which they stick.
- Near the surface on the upper parts of the jetty piles are barnacles; the empty shells serve as shelters for small blennys.
- We sampled summer daytime low-tide temperatures of rock surfaces, anemones and barnacles.
- Divers have to look out for the barnacle covered surfaces and sea urchins as they explore the various levels of the King Cruiser.
- Since both seastars and whelks feed most intensively on barnacles and mussels, they clearly co-occupy the predator guild in this community.
- Yale researchers say a chemical used to protect marine vessels against barnacles clinging to their hulls may be doing damage to the hearing of whales and other mammals.
- Moreover, by attaching rocks that held a solitary barnacle to rocks that held twenty or more, Mauck and Harkless forced solitaries to become part of a group.
- Then they asked were they fresh water barnacles or salt water barnacles.
- While some animals are sedentary, such as barnacles and sponges, most are quite able to move around.
- This can take the form of weed, hard animals such as mussels, oysters and barnacles, or mobile animals which ‘catch a lift’ on ships.
- Most starfish are predators, feeding on sessile or slow-moving prey such as mollusks and barnacles.
- Sloths and barnacles are derived from mobile ancestors, implying that selection sometimes favors reduced mobility of animals.
- Fouling organisms such as algae, mussels, sea squirts, and barnacles have historically been a problem and continue to cost the boating industry tens of millions of dollars each year.
- The whale raised its nose toward me, and I could see barnacles on it, with their feathery legs straining the water.
- In coastal areas, they eat mussels, barnacles, and limpets.
- Most boat owners apply anti-foul paint to prevent barnacles and other marine growth from attaching itself to the underwater hull.
- At low tide, you can see all of the shells and barnacles between the low and high water marks.
- Striking against their surroundings, markings of where barnacles and other marine life had been scraped off were prevalent on the outer walls, testament to the annoyances of underwater living.
- For example, barnacles (whelk prey) may be more susceptible to short-term food deprivation than mussels (sea star prey) because of their small size.
- Many species, including lobsters, crayfish, barnacles, and crabs are important to human economies, some very much so.
Synonyms
parasite, clinger, bloodsucker, cadger, passenger, layabout
1. 1.1 Used in similes to describe a tenacious person or thing.
  buses careered along with men hanging from their doors like barnacles
  Example sentencesExamples
  Like a barnacle, Bud's sticks to the dock, hidden from view.
  I am offering an ethic of authenticity, removing all excuses that some philosophers attach to us like barnacles, blaming parents, climate, social class, whatever.
  Although this design approach was abandoned fairly quickly, the class name stuck, kind of like a barnacle.
  She latches onto him like a barnacle and burrows under his skin like a tick, while he sputters protests and offers weak resistance.
  From that hour I clove to Queequeg like a barnacle; yea, till poor Queequeg took his last long dive.
  Too uncertain to advance with a raise, or retreat with a fold, I called, fastened to this pot like a barnacle.
  Stuck like a barnacle to his home, he relied on people sending him their barnacle collections by post.
  He carries his back muscles like a burden, and his head is attached to his shoulders like a barnacle to an ocean rock.
  The one quality that they all shared, in the end, was stickability - the determination to cling to office with the tenacity of barnacles clinging to a crumbling wreck.
  Once placed in my arms hed attach himself like a barnacle to a hull.
  But last year, I had one babe all over me like a barnacle.
  Our story starts with Sarah, a self involved and rather whiny teen, desperately convinced of her own maturity yet clinging to childhood like a barnacle.
  I had found myself clinging like a barnacle to a splintered oak beam.
  The strings attach themselves like barnacles to Fripp's guitar and refuse to be shaken loose.

Derivatives

barnacled

adjective

But the rock was barnacled, sea-plucked and sound.
Example sentencesExamples
- Jockeying for position, directly ahead of the knobby, barnacled, good-natured whale, the porpoise catches a free ride.
- Niarbyl Bay was so bleak and dreary a place - nothing but tide-swept barnacled rocks and a fast-food hut - that, had this destination not remained a mystery, no one would have boarded the bus.
- As a ponderous Loggerhead turtle scrapes her way up the midnight sands of Queensland's Heron Island, seemingly bearing the weight of the world upon her barnacled back, I can see how the idea arose.
- Surrounding us on all sides was an unbroken wall of pinnacles - huge cetacean humps barnacled with impossibly large cornices, seracs, and needlelike spires.

Origin

Late 16th century: from medieval Latin bernaca, of unknown origin. In Middle English the term denoted the barnacle goose, whose breeding grounds were long unknown and which was believed to hatch from the shell of the crustacean to which it gave its name.

A barnacle was originally what we would now call a barnacle goose. The name appeared in English in the early Middle Ages, but its ultimate origin is unknown. The barnacle goose breeds in the Arctic tundra of Greenland and similar places, but for a long time its place of origin was something of a mystery. People thought it hatched from a type of barnacle that attaches itself to objects floating in the water and has long feathery filaments protruding from its shell, which presumably suggested the notion of plumage. The shellfish itself started to be called a barnacle in the 16th century.

Definition of barnacle in US English:

barnacle

nounˈbärnək(ə)lˈbɑrnək(ə)l

1A 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.
Class Cirripedia. See acorn barnacle, goose barnacle
Example sentencesExamples
- In coastal areas, they eat mussels, barnacles, and limpets.
- Since both seastars and whelks feed most intensively on barnacles and mussels, they clearly co-occupy the predator guild in this community.
- Striking against their surroundings, markings of where barnacles and other marine life had been scraped off were prevalent on the outer walls, testament to the annoyances of underwater living.
- Many species, including lobsters, crayfish, barnacles, and crabs are important to human economies, some very much so.
- At low tide, you can see all of the shells and barnacles between the low and high water marks.
- We sampled summer daytime low-tide temperatures of rock surfaces, anemones and barnacles.
- Therefore, barnacles have only a very little effective contact surface on which they stick.
- Sloths and barnacles are derived from mobile ancestors, implying that selection sometimes favors reduced mobility of animals.
- While some animals are sedentary, such as barnacles and sponges, most are quite able to move around.
- Moreover, by attaching rocks that held a solitary barnacle to rocks that held twenty or more, Mauck and Harkless forced solitaries to become part of a group.
- The whale raised its nose toward me, and I could see barnacles on it, with their feathery legs straining the water.
- Most boat owners apply anti-foul paint to prevent barnacles and other marine growth from attaching itself to the underwater hull.
- Then they asked were they fresh water barnacles or salt water barnacles.
- Yale researchers say a chemical used to protect marine vessels against barnacles clinging to their hulls may be doing damage to the hearing of whales and other mammals.
- Fouling organisms such as algae, mussels, sea squirts, and barnacles have historically been a problem and continue to cost the boating industry tens of millions of dollars each year.
- Near the surface on the upper parts of the jetty piles are barnacles; the empty shells serve as shelters for small blennys.
- This can take the form of weed, hard animals such as mussels, oysters and barnacles, or mobile animals which ‘catch a lift’ on ships.
- For example, barnacles (whelk prey) may be more susceptible to short-term food deprivation than mussels (sea star prey) because of their small size.
- Most starfish are predators, feeding on sessile or slow-moving prey such as mollusks and barnacles.
- Divers have to look out for the barnacle covered surfaces and sea urchins as they explore the various levels of the King Cruiser.
Synonyms
parasite, clinger, bloodsucker, cadger, passenger, layabout
1. 1.1 Used figuratively to describe a tenacious person or thing.
  buses careered along with men hanging from their doors like barnacles
  Example sentencesExamples
  She latches onto him like a barnacle and burrows under his skin like a tick, while he sputters protests and offers weak resistance.
  Although this design approach was abandoned fairly quickly, the class name stuck, kind of like a barnacle.
  Too uncertain to advance with a raise, or retreat with a fold, I called, fastened to this pot like a barnacle.
  From that hour I clove to Queequeg like a barnacle; yea, till poor Queequeg took his last long dive.
  But last year, I had one babe all over me like a barnacle.
  Like a barnacle, Bud's sticks to the dock, hidden from view.
  Stuck like a barnacle to his home, he relied on people sending him their barnacle collections by post.
  Our story starts with Sarah, a self involved and rather whiny teen, desperately convinced of her own maturity yet clinging to childhood like a barnacle.
  The strings attach themselves like barnacles to Fripp's guitar and refuse to be shaken loose.
  Once placed in my arms hed attach himself like a barnacle to a hull.
  I am offering an ethic of authenticity, removing all excuses that some philosophers attach to us like barnacles, blaming parents, climate, social class, whatever.
  I had found myself clinging like a barnacle to a splintered oak beam.
  He carries his back muscles like a burden, and his head is attached to his shoulders like a barnacle to an ocean rock.
  The one quality that they all shared, in the end, was stickability - the determination to cling to office with the tenacity of barnacles clinging to a crumbling wreck.

Origin

Late 16th century: from medieval Latin bernaca, of unknown origin. In Middle English the term denoted the barnacle goose, whose breeding grounds were long unknown and which was believed to hatch from the shell of the crustacean to which it gave its name.

单词	barnacle
释义	Definition of barnacle in English: barnacle noun ˈbɑːnək(ə)lˈbɑrnək(ə)l 1A marine crustacean with an external shell, which attaches itself permanently to a surface and feeds by filtering particles from the water using its modified feathery legs. Class Cirripedia. See acorn barnacle, goose barnacle Example sentencesExamples Therefore, barnacles have only a very little effective contact surface on which they stick. Near the surface on the upper parts of the jetty piles are barnacles; the empty shells serve as shelters for small blennys. We sampled summer daytime low-tide temperatures of rock surfaces, anemones and barnacles. Divers have to look out for the barnacle covered surfaces and sea urchins as they explore the various levels of the King Cruiser. Since both seastars and whelks feed most intensively on barnacles and mussels, they clearly co-occupy the predator guild in this community. Yale researchers say a chemical used to protect marine vessels against barnacles clinging to their hulls may be doing damage to the hearing of whales and other mammals. Moreover, by attaching rocks that held a solitary barnacle to rocks that held twenty or more, Mauck and Harkless forced solitaries to become part of a group. Then they asked were they fresh water barnacles or salt water barnacles. While some animals are sedentary, such as barnacles and sponges, most are quite able to move around. This can take the form of weed, hard animals such as mussels, oysters and barnacles, or mobile animals which ‘catch a lift’ on ships. Most starfish are predators, feeding on sessile or slow-moving prey such as mollusks and barnacles. Sloths and barnacles are derived from mobile ancestors, implying that selection sometimes favors reduced mobility of animals. Fouling organisms such as algae, mussels, sea squirts, and barnacles have historically been a problem and continue to cost the boating industry tens of millions of dollars each year. The whale raised its nose toward me, and I could see barnacles on it, with their feathery legs straining the water. In coastal areas, they eat mussels, barnacles, and limpets. Most boat owners apply anti-foul paint to prevent barnacles and other marine growth from attaching itself to the underwater hull. At low tide, you can see all of the shells and barnacles between the low and high water marks. Striking against their surroundings, markings of where barnacles and other marine life had been scraped off were prevalent on the outer walls, testament to the annoyances of underwater living. For example, barnacles (whelk prey) may be more susceptible to short-term food deprivation than mussels (sea star prey) because of their small size. Many species, including lobsters, crayfish, barnacles, and crabs are important to human economies, some very much so. Synonyms parasite, clinger, bloodsucker, cadger, passenger, layabout 1.1 Used in similes to describe a tenacious person or thing. buses careered along with men hanging from their doors like barnacles Example sentencesExamples Like a barnacle, Bud's sticks to the dock, hidden from view. I am offering an ethic of authenticity, removing all excuses that some philosophers attach to us like barnacles, blaming parents, climate, social class, whatever. Although this design approach was abandoned fairly quickly, the class name stuck, kind of like a barnacle. She latches onto him like a barnacle and burrows under his skin like a tick, while he sputters protests and offers weak resistance. From that hour I clove to Queequeg like a barnacle; yea, till poor Queequeg took his last long dive. Too uncertain to advance with a raise, or retreat with a fold, I called, fastened to this pot like a barnacle. Stuck like a barnacle to his home, he relied on people sending him their barnacle collections by post. He carries his back muscles like a burden, and his head is attached to his shoulders like a barnacle to an ocean rock. The one quality that they all shared, in the end, was stickability - the determination to cling to office with the tenacity of barnacles clinging to a crumbling wreck. Once placed in my arms hed attach himself like a barnacle to a hull. But last year, I had one babe all over me like a barnacle. Our story starts with Sarah, a self involved and rather whiny teen, desperately convinced of her own maturity yet clinging to childhood like a barnacle. I had found myself clinging like a barnacle to a splintered oak beam. The strings attach themselves like barnacles to Fripp's guitar and refuse to be shaken loose. Derivatives barnacled adjective But the rock was barnacled, sea-plucked and sound. Example sentencesExamples Jockeying for position, directly ahead of the knobby, barnacled, good-natured whale, the porpoise catches a free ride. Niarbyl Bay was so bleak and dreary a place - nothing but tide-swept barnacled rocks and a fast-food hut - that, had this destination not remained a mystery, no one would have boarded the bus. As a ponderous Loggerhead turtle scrapes her way up the midnight sands of Queensland's Heron Island, seemingly bearing the weight of the world upon her barnacled back, I can see how the idea arose. Surrounding us on all sides was an unbroken wall of pinnacles - huge cetacean humps barnacled with impossibly large cornices, seracs, and needlelike spires. Origin Late 16th century: from medieval Latin bernaca, of unknown origin. In Middle English the term denoted the barnacle goose, whose breeding grounds were long unknown and which was believed to hatch from the shell of the crustacean to which it gave its name. A barnacle was originally what we would now call a barnacle goose. The name appeared in English in the early Middle Ages, but its ultimate origin is unknown. The barnacle goose breeds in the Arctic tundra of Greenland and similar places, but for a long time its place of origin was something of a mystery. People thought it hatched from a type of barnacle that attaches itself to objects floating in the water and has long feathery filaments protruding from its shell, which presumably suggested the notion of plumage. The shellfish itself started to be called a barnacle in the 16th century. Definition of barnacle in US English: barnacle nounˈbärnək(ə)lˈbɑrnək(ə)l 1A 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. Class Cirripedia. See acorn barnacle, goose barnacle Example sentencesExamples In coastal areas, they eat mussels, barnacles, and limpets. Since both seastars and whelks feed most intensively on barnacles and mussels, they clearly co-occupy the predator guild in this community. Striking against their surroundings, markings of where barnacles and other marine life had been scraped off were prevalent on the outer walls, testament to the annoyances of underwater living. Many species, including lobsters, crayfish, barnacles, and crabs are important to human economies, some very much so. At low tide, you can see all of the shells and barnacles between the low and high water marks. We sampled summer daytime low-tide temperatures of rock surfaces, anemones and barnacles. Therefore, barnacles have only a very little effective contact surface on which they stick. Sloths and barnacles are derived from mobile ancestors, implying that selection sometimes favors reduced mobility of animals. While some animals are sedentary, such as barnacles and sponges, most are quite able to move around. Moreover, by attaching rocks that held a solitary barnacle to rocks that held twenty or more, Mauck and Harkless forced solitaries to become part of a group. The whale raised its nose toward me, and I could see barnacles on it, with their feathery legs straining the water. Most boat owners apply anti-foul paint to prevent barnacles and other marine growth from attaching itself to the underwater hull. Then they asked were they fresh water barnacles or salt water barnacles. Yale researchers say a chemical used to protect marine vessels against barnacles clinging to their hulls may be doing damage to the hearing of whales and other mammals. Fouling organisms such as algae, mussels, sea squirts, and barnacles have historically been a problem and continue to cost the boating industry tens of millions of dollars each year. Near the surface on the upper parts of the jetty piles are barnacles; the empty shells serve as shelters for small blennys. This can take the form of weed, hard animals such as mussels, oysters and barnacles, or mobile animals which ‘catch a lift’ on ships. For example, barnacles (whelk prey) may be more susceptible to short-term food deprivation than mussels (sea star prey) because of their small size. Most starfish are predators, feeding on sessile or slow-moving prey such as mollusks and barnacles. Divers have to look out for the barnacle covered surfaces and sea urchins as they explore the various levels of the King Cruiser. Synonyms parasite, clinger, bloodsucker, cadger, passenger, layabout 1.1 Used figuratively to describe a tenacious person or thing. buses careered along with men hanging from their doors like barnacles Example sentencesExamples She latches onto him like a barnacle and burrows under his skin like a tick, while he sputters protests and offers weak resistance. Although this design approach was abandoned fairly quickly, the class name stuck, kind of like a barnacle. Too uncertain to advance with a raise, or retreat with a fold, I called, fastened to this pot like a barnacle. From that hour I clove to Queequeg like a barnacle; yea, till poor Queequeg took his last long dive. But last year, I had one babe all over me like a barnacle. Like a barnacle, Bud's sticks to the dock, hidden from view. Stuck like a barnacle to his home, he relied on people sending him their barnacle collections by post. Our story starts with Sarah, a self involved and rather whiny teen, desperately convinced of her own maturity yet clinging to childhood like a barnacle. The strings attach themselves like barnacles to Fripp's guitar and refuse to be shaken loose. Once placed in my arms hed attach himself like a barnacle to a hull. I am offering an ethic of authenticity, removing all excuses that some philosophers attach to us like barnacles, blaming parents, climate, social class, whatever. I had found myself clinging like a barnacle to a splintered oak beam. He carries his back muscles like a burden, and his head is attached to his shoulders like a barnacle to an ocean rock. The one quality that they all shared, in the end, was stickability - the determination to cling to office with the tenacity of barnacles clinging to a crumbling wreck. Origin Late 16th century: from medieval Latin bernaca, of unknown origin. In Middle English the term denoted the barnacle goose, whose breeding grounds were long unknown and which was believed to hatch from the shell of the crustacean to which it gave its name.
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