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Acorn Barnacle

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Noun

1. acorn barnacle, balanus balanoides, rock barnacle

barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Acorn Barnacle

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noun
any of various barnacles, such as Balanus balanoides, that live attached to rocks and have a volcano-shaped shell from the top of which protrude feathery food-catching appendages (cirri)

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Acorn Barnacle

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any of a genus (Balanus) of stalkless barnacles that resemble acorns

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Acorn Barnacle

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n.
Any of various barnacles having a conical shell that is directly attached to rocks or other hard surfaces.

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