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barnacle

[bahr-nuh-kuhl] / ˈbɑr nə kəl /


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A Ram truck with a yellow barnacle on its windshield, a handful of mopeds under rain covers, and a lot of empty parking spaces.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2025

The team also used published research and field surveys to find out how barnacle populations overlap with the range expansion of warm-water predatory sea snails.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023

“We are quite poor at remembering how things were 20, 30 years ago, unless we have some notes,” he says, as barnacle geese bark in flight above him.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 26, 2023

Charles Darwin himself spent eight years on barnacle science after finding an “ill formed little monster” during his voyage on the Beagle.

From National Geographic • Aug. 23, 2023

As he says it, I can feel every barnacle.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman