Gooseneck Barnacle (Noun)
Meaning
Stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The old cargo ship had an infestation of gooseneck barnacles on its hull that slowed its journey.
- Invasive gooseneck barnacles attached to floating debris were spreading rapidly to other marine ecosystems.
- During the ship maintenance, the crew focused on scraping off gooseneck barnacles that clung to the hull.
- A few days after the wreckage, gooseneck barnacles began to settle on the ship's sunken timbers.
- The gooseneck barnacles that attached to the docked ship were considered an invasive species in that part of the world.