英语词汇barnacle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

barnacle. The barnacle takes its name from the barnacle goose, which is so called because of its “bare neck,” barnakylle in Middle English, for in ancient times people firmly believed that these geese were born from what we now know as barna- cles. A barnacle’s long stalk and rounded body does resemble the neck and body of a goose, and its tentacles, which wave during the feeding process, suggest the wings of an infant bird being born from a shell and straining out to sea. The ubiquitous crustacean takes its scientific names, Cirripedes, from the Greek for “feet-like curls of hair,” in reference to its tentacles.

词汇	barnacle
词源	barnacle. The barnacle takes its name from the barnacle goose, which is so called because of its “bare neck,” barnakylle in Middle English, for in ancient times people firmly believed that these geese were born from what we now know as barna- cles. A barnacle’s long stalk and rounded body does resemble the neck and body of a goose, and its tentacles, which wave during the feeding process, suggest the wings of an infant bird being born from a shell and straining out to sea. The ubiquitous crustacean takes its scientific names, Cirripedes, from the Greek for “feet-like curls of hair,” in reference to its tentacles.
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