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goose barnacle

British

noun

any barnacle of the genus Lepas, living attached by a stalk to pieces of wood, having long feathery appendages (cirri) and flattened shells

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An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle.

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