BALANUS BALANOIDES Synonyms
There are 8 hypernyms of the phrase balanus balanoides. (close relations)
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| barnacle | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces • European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north | ||||||
| crustacean | nounn | |||||
adjective • of or belonging to the class Crustacea noun • any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton | ||||||
| marine | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||
adjective • of or relating to the sea • relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen • of or relating to military personnel who serve both on land and at sea (specifically the U.S. Marine Corps) • relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea noun • a member of the United States Marine Corps • a soldier who serves both on shipboard and on land adjective satellite • native to or inhabiting the sea | ||||||
| sessile | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective • permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about • attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk | ||||||
| shelled | verb, adjectivev, adj | |||||
adjective • of animals or fruits that have a shell | ||||||
| shellfish | nounn | |||||
noun • meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) • invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | ||||||
| acorn barnacle | nounn | |||||
noun • barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones | ||||||
| rock barnacle | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||
noun • barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones | ||||||
