rock barnacle

bar•na•cle

(ˈbɑr nə kəl)

n. 1. any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, having a shell made up of separate plates, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle). 2. one that clings tenaciously. [1580–85; perhaps a conflation of barnacle barnacle goose with Cornish brennyk limpet (or Celtic cognates)] bar′na•cled, adj.

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rock barnacle - barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zonesacorn barnacle, Balanus balanoidesbarnacle, cirriped, cirripede - marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfacesBalanus, genus Balanus - type genus of the family Balanidae