barnacle

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On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard
A nickname for spectacles
In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design
A good job, or snack easily obtained
The barnacle goose
A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships
An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable
{n} a large bird like a goofe, a shellfish
A bernicle goose
Spectacles; so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers
An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him
(a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies)
See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle
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marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
{i} marine crustacean which permanently fixes itself to rocks
Barnacles are small shellfish that fix themselves tightly to rocks and the bottoms of boats. a small sea animal with a hard shell that sticks firmly to rocks and the bottom of boats (barnacle type of goose (12-21 centuries), from bernaca; from the former belief that the goose was born from a barnacle). Any of a majority of the 1,000 species of the subclass Cirripedia of marine crustaceans that, as adults, are covered with a shell made of hard calcium-containing plates and are permanently cemented, head down, to rocks, pilings, ships' hulls, driftwood, or seaweed or to the bodies of larger sea creatures, from clams to whales. Barnacles trap tiny particles of food with their cirri, feathery retractable organs that emerge from openings between the shell plates. Adult barnacles commonly are hermaphrodites
Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc
barnacle goose
A black and white species of bird from the northern hemisphere, scientifically known as the Branta leucopsis
barnacle goose
European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
barnacle goose
A waterfowl (Branta leucopsis) of northern Europe and Greenland that breeds in the Arctic and has a white face with a black streak between the eyes and bill. Species (Branta leucopsis) of waterbird that resembles a small Canada goose, with dark back, white face, and black neck and bib. It winters in the northern British Isles and on the coasts of Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, it was thought to hatch from barnacles, and thus was considered "fish" and could be eaten on Fridays
barnacled
Old and weathered, particularly with respect to persons or things associated with the ocean
gooseneck barnacle
Any of several filter-feeding crustaceans, of the genus Lapas, that live attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam in the ocean intertidal zone. It has a long and muscular stalk, which is edible and is considered a delicacy in several Mediterranean countries
barnacles
{n} irons on horses' noses, spectacles
acorn barnacle
barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones
barnacled
Crusted with barnacles
barnacled
covered with barnacles; "the barnacled hull of a wrecked ship
barnacles
plural of barnacle
goose barnacle
stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers
goose barnacle
Any of various barnacles of the genus Lapas, having a fleshy stalk that attaches to rocks or floating objects such as ship hulls. Also called gooseneck barnacle
barnacle

    Silbentrennung

    bar·na·cle

    Türkische aussprache

    bärnıkıl

    Aussprache

    /ˈbärnəkəl/ /ˈbɑːrnəkəl/

    Etymologie

    [ 'bär-ni-k&l ] (noun.) 15th century. From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, from Old French bernaque 'barnacle', from Gaulish *barenica 'limpet' (compare Welsh brennig, Irish báirneac), from *barenos 'rock' (compare Old Irish barenn 'boulder'); for sense development, compare Ancient Greek lépas 'rock' which gave lepás 'limpet'.
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