Definition of Balanus balanoides

1. Noun. Barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones.

Exact synonyms: Acorn Barnacle, Rock Barnacle
Generic synonyms: Barnacle, Cirriped, Cirripede
Group relationships: Balanus, Genus Balanus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Balanus Balanoides

Balaeniceps
Balaeniceps rex
Balaenicipitidae
Balaenidae
Balaenoptera
Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Balaenoptera borealis
Balaenoptera musculus
Balaenoptera physalus
Balaenopteridae
Balanchine
Balanidae
Balanites aegyptiaca
Balantidium coli
Balantidium suis
Balanus balanoides (current term)
Balarama
Balaton
Balbani ring
Balbiani ring
Balboa
Baldr
Baldrick
Baldrs draumar
Baldur
Baldwin
Baldwin's phosphorus
Baldwins
Baldy's operation
Balearic

Literary usage of Balanus balanoides

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1843)
"ON THE LARVA OF Balanus balanoides. During the greater part of the months of April and May of this year (1843), the water around the Island of May has been ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"The same species is common upon the southern coast of England, being " in parts, even more numerous than the Balanus balanoides," according to Darwin, ..."

3. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles Darwin (1854)
"(b), of Balanus balanoides, more mature. (c), of Balanus perforatus, ... 9, Larva of Balanus balanoides, immediately after coming out of the egg, ..."

4. A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea by Charles Spence Bate, John Obadiah Westwood (1868)
"... (Balanus balanoides), and the animal, copied in our left-hand figure, as being parasitic upon that supposed male. About the time of the publication of a ..."

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