| 单词 | barnacle |
| 释义 | barnacle (once / 5934 pages) 1n 2n A barnacle is a spineless animal that looks like a small circular white rock. You'll often find barnacles attached to the bottom of boats. Barnacles are crustaceans, which means they're related to crabs, lobsters, and shrimp, all of which have an external shell. In the case of barnacles, their shells attach to things like rocks, other shells, docks, and boats, and stay there permanently, filtering food from shallow ocean water through feathery appendages. The earliest use of the word referred to a European goose whose mythology described it hatching from the marine crustacean that eventually took its name. WORD FAMILYbarnacle: barnacles USAGE EXAMPLESAnd then, dramatic music swells as a dastardly barnacle swims up behind him. Washington Post(Nov 18, 2016) To others they are barnacles encrusting a beloved landmark. New York Times(Nov 14, 2016) They are percebeiras, hunters and gatherers of the gooseneck barnacle of the Spanish Atlantic. Slate(Nov 14, 2016) 1 n marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper cirriped, cirripede Balanus balanoides, acorn barnacle, rock barnacle barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones Lepas fascicularis, goose barnacle, gooseneck barnaclestalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers crustacean any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton n European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north Syn|Hyper Branta leucopsis, barnacle goose goose web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks |
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