gooseneck barnacle

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   stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers

   Synonymsgoose barnacleLepas fascicularis

   Broaderbarnacle

   Part ofLepas

Questions about gooseneck barnacle

What does gooseneck barnacle mean?

gooseneck barnacle means "stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers".

What is another word for gooseneck barnacle?

Close synonyms include goose barnacle, Lepas fascicularis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gooseneck barnacle a common word?

gooseneck barnacle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.