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barnacle

Marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia. The larval form is free-swimming, but when mature, it fixes itself by the head to rock or floating wood. The animal then remains attached, enclosed in a shell through which the cirri (modified legs) protrude to sweep food into the mouth. Barnacles include the stalked goose barnacle Lepas anatifera found on ships' bottoms, and the acorn barnacles, such as Balanus balanoides, common on rocks.



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I was sick for a couple of days, meanly sick, and my arms were painfully poisoned from the barnacle scratches.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
If the agricultural person with the hair will kindly shut his head, the sea-green barnacle with the wall-eye may perhaps condescend to enlighten us.
Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
By all the rules of the game the referee should have broken it, but he did not, and Danny clung on like a surf-battered barnacle and moment by moment recuperated.
The Night-Born by London, Jack View in context
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