barnacle

1. Marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages;
   Free-swimming as larvae;
   As adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces (synset 102000837)
   is a type of: crustacean - any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
   subtypes:

   • acorn barnacle, balanus balanoides, rock barnacle - barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones
   • goose barnacle, gooseneck barnacle, lepas fascicularis - stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers
   belongs to: cirripedia, subclass cirripedia - barnacles
   same as: cirriped, cirripede
2. European goose smaller than the brant;
   Breeds in the far north (synset 101860492)
   is a type of: goose - web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
   belongs to: branta, genus branta - wild geese
   same as: barnacle goose, branta leucopsis

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