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A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles.

n applied to the English Independents (1641). See Citation under Radical, n., 2. -- Root barnacle (Zoöl.), one of the Rhizocephala. -- Root hair (Bot.), one of the slender, hairlike fibers found on the surface of fresh roots. They are prolongations of the superficial cells of the root into minute tubes. Gray. -- Roo…

One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.

An acorn barnacle (Balanus).

specially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans. Sedentary spider (Zoöl.), one of a tribe of spiders which rest motionless until their prey is caught in their web.

A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.

Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem. Stalked barnacle (Zoöl.), a goose barnacle, or anatifer; -- called also stalk barnacle. -- Stalked crinoid (Zoöl.), any crinoid having a jointed stem.

ng those which have six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are examples.