Word Meanings - ACORN-SHELL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle.

Related words: (words related to ACORN-SHELL)

• SESSILE-EYED
  Having eyes which are not elevated on a stalk; -- opposed to stalk-eyed. Sessile-eyed Crustacea, the Arthrostraca.
• SESSILE
  Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom. (more info) 1. Attached without any sensible projecting support.
• BARNACLE
  Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. the sessile species , and the stalked or goose barnacles . See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. Barnacle eater , the orange filefish. -- Barnacle scale , a bark
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.