单词 |
acorn-shell |
释义 |
acorn-shell Popular name of a multivalve Cirriped (Balanus, Ellis), called also Sea-acorn, allied to the Barnacles, but without a flexible stalk, several species of which live sessile upon rocks, piles, iron pillars, and shells of other marine animals, between high and low water-mark.
1764Croker Dict. Arts s.v., The great furrowed Acorn⁓shell..is found sticking to the rocks in the East and West Indies. 1857Wood Com. Obj. Sea Shore viii. 157 The entire surface of the limpet was covered with acorn-shells. |

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