Definitions for balanus
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1. Balanus, genus Balanusnoun

   type genus of the family Balanidae

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1. Balanus

   Balanus is a genus of barnacles in the family Balanidae of the subphylum Crustacea. This genus is known in the fossil record from the Jurassic to the Quaternary periods (age range: from 189.6 to 0.0 million years ago.). Fossil shells within this genus have been found all over the world.

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1. balanus

   Balanus is a genus of barnacles in the family Balanidae which are a type of crustacean. They are marine animals that undergo planktonic larval development before permanently attaching themselves to hard substrates, often rocks, ships or the bodies of larger marine organisms. They have a hard, calcareous shell and feed by filtering particles from the water.

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1. Balanus

   Balanus is a genus of barnacles in the family Balanidae of the subphylum Crustacea, containing the following species: ⁕Balanus amaryllis Darwin ⁕Balanus amphitrite Darwin, 1854 ⁕Balanus aquila Pilsbry, 1907 ⁕Balanus balanus ⁕Balanus bloxhamensis Weisbord, 1966 ⁕Balanus borsodensis Kolosváry, 1952 ⁕Balanus calidus Pilsbry, 1916 ⁕Balanus campbelli Filhol, 1886 ⁕Balanus chisletianus Sowerby, 1859 ⁕Balanus citerosum Henry, 1973 ⁕Balanus concavus ⁕Balanus connelli Cornwall, 1927 ⁕Balanus crenatus Bruguiére, 1789 ⁕Balanus curvirostratus Menesini, 1968 ⁕Balanus darwinii Seguenza, 1876 ⁕Balanus dentivarians Henry, 1973 ⁕Balanus eburneus Gould, 1841 ⁕Balanus ecuadoricus Pilsbry & Olson, 1951 ⁕Balanus flosculoidus Kolosváry, 1941 ⁕Balanus gizellae Kolosváry, 1967 ⁕Balanus glandula Darwin, 1854 ⁕Balanus hohmanni Philippi, 1887 ⁕Balanus humilis Conrad, 1846 ⁕Balanus imitator Zullo, 1984 ⁕Balanus improvisus Darwin, 1854 ⁕Balanus irradians Zullo & Guruswami-Naidu, 1982 ⁕Balanus irregularis Broch, 1931 ⁕Balanus kanakoffi Zullo, 1969 ⁕Balanus kondakovi Tarasov & Zevina, 1957 ⁕Balanus laevis Bruguiere, 1789 ⁕Balanus laguairensis Weisbord, 1966 ⁕Balanus leonensis Weisbord, 1966 ⁕Balanus microstomus Philippi, 1887

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1. Balanus

   See Acorn-shell.

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1. balanus

   The acorn-shell. A sessile cirriped.

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1. • Arthropod Genus

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1. subanal

2. nabalus

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of balanus in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of balanus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=balanus
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanus
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=balanus
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=balanus
6. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=balanus
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=balanus