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What (who) is BARNACLE - definition
INFRACLASS OF CRUSTACEANS
Barnacles; Cirripedia; Cirripede; Thyrostraca; Cirrhopoda; Cirrhipoda; Cirrhipedia; Cyprid; Cirriped; Cirrepede; Sessile Barnacles; The barnicle; Cypris larva; Barnacle taxonomy; Cirripedologist; Cirripedology
![[[Whale barnacle]]s attached to the throat of a [[humpback whale]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anim1032 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg?width=200 "[[Whale barnacle]]s attached to the throat of a [[humpback whale]]")
![Nauplius larva of ''[[Elminius modestus]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elminius modestus nauplius.jpg?width=200 "Nauplius larva of ''[[Elminius modestus]]''")
![Ernst Haeckel's]] ''[[Kunstformen der Natur]]'' (1904): The crab at the centre is nursing the externa of the parasitic cirripede ''[[Sacculina]]''.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Haeckel Cirripedia.jpg?width=200 "Ernst Haeckel's]] ''[[Kunstformen der Natur]]'' (1904): The crab at the centre is nursing the externa of the parasitic cirripede ''[[Sacculina]]''.")
![Barnacles and [[limpet]]s compete for space in the intertidal zone](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CornishBarnacles.JPG?width=200 "Barnacles and [[limpet]]s compete for space in the intertidal zone")
![Underside of large ''Chesaconcavus'' sp. ([[Miocene]]) showing internal plates in bioimmured smaller barnacles](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chesaconcavus base detail.jpg?width=200 "Underside of large ''Chesaconcavus'' sp. ([[Miocene]]) showing internal plates in bioimmured smaller barnacles")
![''[[Balanus improvisus]]'', one of the many barnacle taxa described by [[Charles Darwin]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Balanus improvisus on Mya arenaria shell.jpg?width=200 "''[[Balanus improvisus]]'', one of the many barnacle taxa described by [[Charles Darwin]]")
![[[Miocene]] ([[Messinian]]) ''[[Megabalanus]]'', smothered by sand and fossilised](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Megabalanus on breccia.JPG?width=200 "[[Miocene]] ([[Messinian]]) ''[[Megabalanus]]'', smothered by sand and fossilised")
![Barnacles attached to pilings along the [[Siuslaw River]] in [[Oregon]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Siuslaw River-1.jpg?width=200 "Barnacles attached to pilings along the [[Siuslaw River]] in [[Oregon]]")
![[[Goose barnacle]]s in a restaurant in [[Madrid]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Percebes.iguaria.jpg?width=200 "[[Goose barnacle]]s in a restaurant in [[Madrid]]")
barnacle
(barnacles)
Barnacles are small shellfish that fix themselves tightly to rocks and the bottoms of boats.
N-COUNT
Barnacle
·noun A bernicle goose.
II. Barnacle ·noun An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.
III. Barnacle (·sg) Spectacles;
- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.
IV. Barnacle ·noun Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, ·etc., ·esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). ·see Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle.
barnacle
['b?:n?k(?)l]
¦ noun a marine crustacean with an external shell, which attaches itself permanently to underwater surfaces and feeds by using modified feathery legs as filters. [Class Cirripedia: many species.]
Derivatives
barnacled adjective
Origin
C16: from med. L. bernaca.
Wikipedia
Barnacle
Barnacles are a type of arthropod constituting the subclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and are hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tidal waters, typically in erosive settings. They are sessile (nonmobile) and most are suspension feeders, but those in infraclass Rhizocephala are highly specialized parasites on crustaceans. They have four nektonic (active swimming) larval stages. Around 1,000 barnacle species are currently known. The name Cirripedia is Latin, meaning "curl-footed". The study of barnacles is called cirripedology.
Examples of use of BARNACLE
1. "I don‘t consider the Constitution a barnacle," Addington said reproachfully.
2. Pilcher managed to climb about 15 feet up a barnacle–encrusted metal pipe.
3. Maybe it‘s time to say goodbye to those three spooky initials "CIA" and the bloated, barnacle–encrusted agency they represent.
4. Species doing particularly well include the barnacle goose, white stork, spoonbill, little egret Slavonian grebe and white–tailed eagle.
5. He‘s like a barnacle; he‘s not going anywhere,‘‘ said Paul Light, a presidential historian at New York University.