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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BALANOID

Bal "a *noid, a. Etym: [Gr. -oid.] (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.