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