barnacle

/'bɑ:nәkl/

BNC频率: 23561

现代语料频率: 22774

中文翻译

n. 北极雁, 藤壶

英文解释

n. marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces

词态变化

复数形式:barnacles

过去式:barnacled

常见例句

stalkless barnacles

-- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns

See Acornshell, and Barnacle.

n usually coiled n a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles) n a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects

An order of Crustacea including the barnacles