barnacle

Neither wanted a relationship or the barnacles of feeling that come with commitments.

The research team compiled an extensive database of studies on "underappreciated" organisms, ranging from sponges and barnacles to marine mammals, and everything in between.

Filter feeders are everywhere in the animal world, from tiny crustaceans and certain types of coral and krill, to various molluscs, barnacles, and even massive basking sharks and baleen whales.

And his company has also found that coatings applied to commercial ships do not always prevent barnacles and other sea life from attaching themselves to the hull.

Her giant head and white pectoral fins - fringed with barnacles - are visible as she slowly floats beneath us.