Translingual

Balanus (unknown species)

Proper noun

Balanus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Balanidae – certain barnacles.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Crustacea - subphylum; Maxillopoda - class; Thecostraca - subclass; Cirripedia - infraclass; Thoracica - superorder; Sessilia - order; Balanomorpha - suborder; Balanoidea - superfamily; Balanidae - family; Balaninae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Balanus balanus - type species; for other species see Balanus at World Register of Marine Species .

Latin

Noun

balanus f ‎(genitive balanī); second declension

1. an acorn
2. a fruit or other object similar in form to an acorn:
   1. a chestnut
   2. the ben-nut (Moringa)
   3. a date
   4. a suppository
   5. a species of shellfish

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Trnslingual: Balanus

References

balanus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• balanus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• BALANUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “balanus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• balanus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray