barnacle

名词 barnacle:

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

bar.na.cle

n.（名词）
Any of various marine crustaceans of the subclass Cirripedia that in the adult stage form a hard shell and remain attached to submerged surfaces, such as rocks and ships` bottoms.
藤壶：一种蔓足亚纲的海洋甲壳类动物，成年期形成硬壳且固着在没入水的表层，如岩石和船底
The barnacle goose.
黑雁，北极雁

来源：
Middle English [barnacle goose]
中古英语 [黑雁]
from Old French bernacle
源自 古法语 bernacle
from Medieval Latin bernacula
源自 中世纪拉丁语 bernacula
[diminutive of] bernaca
[] bernaca的小后缀
perhaps from Old Irish báirneach [limpet]
可能源自 古爱尔兰语 báirneach [帽贝]

【引伸】
bar.nacled
adj.（形容词）