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Barnacle vs. Limpet — What's the Difference?

Barnacle vs. Limpet — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Barnacle and Limpet

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Barnacle

A barnacle is a type of arthropod constituting the subclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tidal waters, typically in erosive settings.

Limpet

Limpets are a group of aquatic snails that exhibit a conical shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot. Limpets are members of the class Gastropoda, but are polyphyletic, meaning the various groups called "limpets" descended independently from different ancestral gastropods.

Barnacle

Any of various marine crustaceans of the subclass Cirripedia that in the adult stage form a hard shell which remains attached to submerged surfaces such as rocks and ships' hulls, and that have feathery appendages used for filter feeding.

Limpet

Any of numerous marine gastropod mollusks that have a conical shell and often adhere to rocks in intertidal areas, especially those of the order Patellogastropoda.

Barnacle

The barnacle goose.
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Limpet

One that clings persistently.

Barnacle

A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.

Limpet

A type of explosive designed to cling to the hull of a ship and detonate on contact or signal.

Barnacle

The barnacle goose.

Limpet

A small mollusc, of the family Patellidae with a conical shell found clinging to rocks in the intertidal zones of rocky shores.

Barnacle

In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.

Limpet

(British) Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.
He stuck to me like a limpet all day!

Barnacle

On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.

Limpet

In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell.

Barnacle

A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.

Limpet

Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides.

Barnacle

An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.

Limpet

Somthing or someone that clings tenaciously to another object or person;

Barnacle

A pair of spectacles.

Limpet

Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks.

Barnacle

A good job, or snack easily obtained.

Limpet

A keyhole limpet. See Fissurella.

Barnacle

(slang) A worldly sailor.

Limpet

Mollusk with a low conical shell

Barnacle

To connect with or attach.

Limpet

Any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas

Barnacle

To press close against something.

Barnacle

Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle.

Barnacle

A bernicle goose.

Barnacle

An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.
The barnacles . . . give pain almost equal to that of the switch.

Barnacle

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

Barnacle

Marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces

Barnacle

European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north

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