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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024bar•na•cle1 /ˈbɑrnəkəl/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Invertebratesa shellfish living in salt water and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber.
bar•na•cled, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bar•na•cle1 (bär′nə kəl),USA pronunciation n. - Invertebratesany marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, esp. in the intertidal zone.
- a person or thing that clings tenaciously.
- perh. a conflation of barnacle barnacle goose with Cornish brennyk, Irish báirneach limpet, Welsh brenig limpets, reflecting the folk belief that such geese, whose breeding grounds were unknown, were engendered from rotten ships' planking 1580–85
- Usually, barnacles. an instrument with two hinged branches for pinching the nose of an unruly horse.
- British Terms barnacles, spectacles.
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- Old French
- Middle English bernacle bit, dim of bernac 1350–1400
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