goose barnacle

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goose barnacle

Any of various barnacles having a fleshy stalk that attaches to rocks or floating objects such as ships' hulls. Also called gooseneck barnacle.

goose barnacle

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

bar•na•cle

(ˈbɑr nə kəl)

n.

1. any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, having a shell made up of separate plates, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle).

2. one that clings tenaciously.

[1580–85; perhaps a conflation of barnacle barnacle goose with Cornish brennyk limpet (or Celtic cognates)]

bar′na•cled, adj.

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goose barnacle - stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers

gooseneck barnacle, Lepas fascicularis

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

genus Lepas, Lepas - type genus of the family Lepadidae

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In the home of the albarino grape I ate the weirdest little barnacles called percebes, which cling to wave-battered rocks in the Atlantic Ocean.

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In the home of the albarino grape, I ate the weirdest little barnacles called percebes, which cling to wave-battered rocks in the Atlantic Ocean.

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On the coast, she meets a plucky woman named Marie-Carmen, who braves choppy waters where fishermen die every year to hunt for percebes - or goose neck barnacles.

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Percebes Probably the ugliest food you will ever try, percebes or goose barnacles are tube-shaped crustaceans that cling to wave beaten rocks along the shorelines mainly in Galicia.

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On the coast, she meets Marie-Carmen, who braves choppy waters where fishermen die every year to hunt for Percebes - or Goose Neck Barnacles.

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That includes gourmet dining on percebes - Spanish barnacles - and listening to everything musical "from rap to Luciano Pavarotti to flamenco".

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October to February is the harvesting season for Percebes or goose barnacles, a local delicacy, which can fetch pounds 100 a kilo.