goose barnacle

goose bar·na·cle

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Definitions of goose barnacle words

noun goose barnacle any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone. 1
noun goose barnacle a person or thing that clings tenaciously. 1
noun goose barnacle any barnacle of the genus Lepas, living attached by a stalk to pieces of wood, having long feathery appendages (cirri) and flattened shells 0
noun goose barnacle any of a number of barnacles (genera Lepas and Mitella) that attach themselves by a long, fleshy stalk to rocks, ship bottoms, etc. 0

before 1880

One of the 23% newest English words

First recorded in 1880-85

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