American English pronunciation

How to pronounce barnacle

IPA transcription: ['bɑɹnəkəl]

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Noun

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

  • European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north