Definition of Acorn barnacle

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

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Acorn Barnacle

aconitum
aconitums
acontextual
acontextuality
acontextually
acontia
acop
acopia
acopic
acormus
acorn
acorn-shell
acorn-shells
acorn-tipped catheter
acorn barnacle (current term)
acorn cup
acorn nut
acorn squash
acorn squashes
acorn tube
acorn woodpecker
acorn woodpeckers
acorned
acornlike
acorns
acosmism
acosmisms
acosmist
acosmists

Literary usage of Acorn barnacle

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

1. Organic Dependence and Disease: Their Origin and Significance by John Mason Clarke (1921)
"The acorn barnacle with its hard valves consolidated into a cone-shaped shell, and the goose barnacle with its flat shells on clustered stems, represent for ..."

2. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of the by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"The commonest is the ACORN-BARNACLE, the white shell of which, measuring rather less than an inch across, swarms on rocks at the seaside. ..."

3. Elements of Zoölogy: A Textbook by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"Cypris is very minute, and abounds in ponds and pools. Fossil shells of extinct Fio. 502. acorn barnacle ... acorn barnacle—appendages drawn iu. FIG. ..."

4. Diversions of a Naturalist by Edwin Ray Lankester (1915)
"The acorn-barnacle has no stalk, but adheres by its broad base to the stone. Just within the shelly crater are four small hinged plates or valves in pairs, ..."

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