"Anatifa" is a word in ENGLISH

One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle.

Producing ducks; -- applied to Anatifae, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle.

Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.

Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and …

Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.

An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.

A bernicle goose.

See Barnacle.

An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the …

The peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles.

To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.

Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; …

To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because …

A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea …

A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas, or family Lepadidae; a goose barnacle. Also used adjectively.

Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, …

The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

A sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are attached to other objects. See Illust. of Barnacle.

A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles.

One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.