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Webster 1913 Edition


Balanoid

Bal′a-noid

,
Adj.
[Gr.
βάλανοσ
acorn +
-oid
.]
(Zool.)
Resembling an acorn; – applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See
Acornshell
, and
Barnacle
.