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Definition of Acorn barnacle
1. Noun. Barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones.
Generic synonyms: Barnacle, Cirriped, Cirripede
Group relationships: Balanus, Genus Balanus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acorn Barnacle
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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