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
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Adult barnacles commonly are hermaphrodites.藤壶多雌雄同体。
He wrote seminal books on orchids, insects, barnacles and corals.他写了不少对以后发展有很大影响的书,关于兰花的,昆虫的,藤壶的以及珊瑚的。