0 a small sea creature with a shell, that sticks very tightly and in large numbers to rocks and the bottom of boats -- （岩石、船底等处的）附着甲壳动物，藤壶
Osmolarity was measured for solutions in which ion substitutions were made to be cer tain it equaled that of normal barnacle saline.
Adaptation in the input 0output relation of the synapse made by the barnacle's photoreceptor.
Westerkamp's journey into the inner world of the barnacles validates the exploration of her own inner world, and ultimately that of the listener.
Interference competition for attachment space on the rocky substrate is usually intense among species of algae as well as between sessile filter-feeding invertebrates such as mussels and barnacles.
There are increasing stocks of barnacle and whitefront geese, but we never seem to find long-term answers to the problems.
Shipbuilding is still bumping along with the barnacles scraping the bottom.
In the busy time their vessels have barely time to turn round in port, and have to be sent to sea often covered barnacles.
Fourthly, a 10-yearly review would reassure people that, as time elapsed, no barnacles would gather on the bottom of the boat.
