acorn barnacle

1. 1.

   barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones

   Synonymsrock barnacleBalanus balanoides

   Broaderbarnacle

   Part ofBalanus

Questions about acorn barnacle

What does acorn barnacle mean?

acorn barnacle means "barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones".

What is another word for acorn barnacle?

Close synonyms include rock barnacle, Balanus balanoides. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acorn barnacle a common word?

acorn barnacle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.