Barnacle - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: barnacleBarnacle
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...
barnacled
covered with barnacles...
VerbarLepas
Any one of various species of Lepas a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber bottoms of ships Gulf weed etc called also goose barnacle See Barnacle...
Balanoid
Resembling an acorn applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns See Acornshell and Barnacle...
Lepadoid
A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas or family Lepadidaelig a goose barnacle Also used adjectively...
Bernacle
See Barnacle...
Cirripedia
An order of Crustacea including the barnacles When adult they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs looking like a delicate curl whence the name of the group See Anatifa...
Clake
The bernicle goose now called barnacle goose and also called clack goose...
Grave
To clean as a vessels bottom of barnacles grass etc and pay it over with pitch so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose...
Kakaralli
A kind of wood common in Demerara durable in salt water because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle...
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