acorn barnacle

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acorn barnacle, shell

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) 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 - barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones

Balanus balanoides, rock barnacle

barnacle, cirriped, cirripede - marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces

Balanus, genus Balanus - type genus of the family Balanidae

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