Definition of Balanidae

1. Noun. Stalkless barnacles.

Exact synonyms: Family Balanidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Cirripedia, Subclass Cirripedia
Member holonyms: Balanus, Genus Balanus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Balanidae

Balaamite
Balaamites
Balaena
Balaena mysticetus
Balaeniceps
Balaeniceps rex
Balaenicipitidae
Balaenidae
Balaenoptera
Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Balaenoptera borealis
Balaenoptera musculus
Balaenoptera physalus
Balaenopteridae
Balanchine
Balanidae (current term)
Balanites aegyptiaca
Balantidium coli
Balantidium suis
Balanus balanoides
Balarama
Balaton
Balbani ring
Balbiani ring
Balboa
Baldr
Baldrick
Baldrs draumar
Baldur
Baldwin

Literary usage of Balanidae

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

1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eúgen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"Only later does the broad base characteristic of the Balanidae develop and form that external secondary mantle-fold, within which the upper part of the ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... "Monograph of the Balanidae," 1854; "Monograph of the Fossil Balanidae and Vermeid» of Great Britain," 1854; "On the Origin of Species by Means of ..."

3. Catalogue of Books by Perth (W.A.). Public Library (1905)
"... of South America visited during the voyage of HMS Beagle; with maps and illust. 2nd ed., 8vo. Lond., 1876. 873, ai Monograph on the fossil Balanidae and ..."

4. Organic Dependence and Disease: Their Origin and Significance by John Mason Clarke (1921)
"This attachment, and consequently the career of the goose barnacles would seem to date from approximately the same geological age as that of the Balanidae ..."

5. Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropological and Zoological Results of an by Herbert Christopher Robinson, Nelson Annandale (1903)
"Balanus concavus, Brown Balanidae, p. 225 (1854). Patani Bay. One specimen on an oyster shell, and another small one from the carapace of ..."

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