Noun
- 1. barnacle, cirriped, cirripede, crustacean
- usage: marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
- 2. barnacle goose, barnacle, Branta leucopsis, goose
- usage: European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
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