barnacle
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- n marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
- n European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
- So I kept it simpleflies, earthworms, a barnaclethings that people know.
- The Mosley brand of National Socialism never became more than a barnacle on a political system renowned for its tolerance and stability.
- Nothing slows up a ship like barnacles on the bottom.