Barnacle

['bɑːnək(ə)l] or ['bɑrnəkl]

解释:

(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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解释:

(n.) 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.

(n.) A bernicle goose.

(n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.

(sing.) Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.

手打:托马斯

解释:

n. a shellfish which adheres to rocks and the bottoms of ships: a companion who sticks closely.—n. Bar′nacle-goose a species of wild goose belonging to the Northern seas so called from a notion that they were produced from the barnacles mentioned.

n. an instrument consisting of two branches joined by a hinge placed on the nose of horses to keep them quiet: (pl.) a colloquial term for 'spectacles.'—adj. Bar′nacled.

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