percebe

Definitions of percebe
  1. noun
    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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    types:
    escaramujo
    stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers
    type of:
    crustáceo
    any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
  2. noun
    a stupid incompetent person
    synonyms: alcornoque, atún, bobales, bobalicón, bodoque, borrico, cateto, cebollino, ceporro, cernícalo, ganso, gaznápiro, lechuzo, lila, majadero, mentecato, tarado, tontaina, tontorrón, vaina, zopenco, zote
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    type of:
    crédulo, imbécil, ingenuo, inocente, simple
    a person lacking intelligence or common sense
  3. noun
    a person of subnormal intelligence
    synonyms: adoquín, alcornoque, animal, asno, babieca, badulaque, bambarria, batusino, berengo, berza, berzotas, bestia, besugo, bobelas, bobo, bolo, borde, borrego, botarate, bruto, burro, cebollino, chorra, ciruelo, cretino, estafermo, estúpido, forrapelotas, ganso, gilí, guajolote, guanajo, huevo, huevón, idiota, imbécil, macho, majadero, mamarracho, mameluco, mamerto, mamón, mastuerzo, melón, memo, mentecato, muermo, necio, oligofrénico, pandero, panoli, pavipollo, pavo, piernas, pollino, porro, pringado, pánfilo, retrasado, sinsustancia, soplagaitas, tarado, tiparraco, tipejo, tontaina, tonto, zambeque, zopenco, zulú, zángano
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    type of:
    crédulo, imbécil, ingenuo, inocente, simple
    a person lacking intelligence or common sense
  4. noun
    someone who is regarded as contemptible
    synonyms: berzotas, capullo, ceporro, chabón, estafermo, inflagaitas, lila, merluzo, ninchi, pavipollo, piernas, soplagaitas, tonto
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    type of:
    crédulo, imbécil, ingenuo, inocente, simple
    a person lacking intelligence or common sense
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