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goose barnacle

DEFINITIONS OF: goose barnacle

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n stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers

Synonyms:
Lepas fascicularis, gooseneck barnacle
Type of:
barnacle, cirriped, cirripede
marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
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