Noun:

கட்டிலடங்காக் குதிரையின் மூக்கைப் பிடிக்க உதவும் குரடு,

barnacle's Usage Examples:

CRUSTACEA, a very large division of the animal kingdom, comprising the familiar crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimps and prawns, the sandhoppers and woodlice, the strangely modified barnacles and the minute water-fleas.

The horizontal distribution of barnacles over all seas is fully explained by Darwin.

The vernacular name barnacle, traceable to the fable of pedunculate cirripedes hatching out into bernicle geese, has also been transferred to the sessile cirripedes, which are popularly known as acorn barnacles.

With these teeth they are able to enjoy a mixed menu of shelled animals including barnacles, other crustaceans, and mollusks.

devonicus, " is interesting in being the first representative of fossil barnacles from the Devonian, Barrande's species of Plumulites and Anatifopsis, as well as the Turrilepis of Woodward, being from the Upper and Lower Silurian, and Plumulites jamesi (Hall and Whitf.

Sometimes the one partner affords the other merely a convenient means of transport, as in the case of the barnacles which grow on, or of the gulf-weed crab which clings to, the carapace of marine turtles.

In the plankton sessions we found copepods with their egg sacs, barnacle larve andsome diatoms under the highest magnification.

The very remarkable "serpuline atolls" are covered by a solid crust made of the convoluted tubes of serpulae and Vermetus, together with barnacles, mussels, nullipores, corallines and some true incrusting corals.

The whole story was an imaginary embroidery of the facts that barnacles attach themselves to submerged timber and that a species of goose is known as the bernicle goose.

The sheltered waters of the broken southern coast, however, are rich in fish and molluscs, especially in mussels, limpets and barnacles, which are the principal food resource of the nomadic Indian tribes of those regions.

barnacles on yacht hulls - which the paint was designed to prevent - does not happen in fresh water.

barnacle goose in Combe Haven valley.

THYROSTRACA, an order of Crustacea, comprising barnacles, acorn shells and some allied degenerate parasites.

Synonyms:

acorn barnacle, cirriped, cirripede, Balanus balanoides, subclass Cirripedia, goose barnacle, crustacean, Lepas fascicularis, Cirripedia, gooseneck barnacle, rock barnacle,

Antonyms:

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