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Definition of Rock barnacle

1. Noun. Barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rock Barnacle

Literary usage of Rock barnacle

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

1. A Textbook in General Zoology by Henry Richardson Linville, Henry Augustus Kelly (1906)
"The species shown in the accompanying figure is the rock-barnacle (Bal'anus ... At the top of the rock-barnacle are two hard, movable valves, ..."

2. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"The rock-barnacle, Balanus balanoides (Fig. 214) is abundant along the North Atlantic coast, where it lives attached to rocks and ..."

3. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1907)
"On these being cleared of soil, there were exposed, still adhering, shells of the sea-acorn or rock-barnacle. This stone, which is of considerable weight, ..."

4. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"... with its truncated summit upon which the pupil opens, reproducing with the most wonderful minuteness the multivalve shell of a rock barnacle (Balanus). ..."

5. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"... with its truncated summit upon which the pupil opens, reproducing with the most wonderful minuteness the multivalve shell of a rock barnacle (Balanus). ..."

6. Diversions of a Naturalist by Edwin Ray Lankester (1915)
"In Madrid I have seen in the fish shops and eaten yet another crustacean—a very curious one— namely, a long-stalked rock-barnacle of the kind known to ..."

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