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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sessile cirriped which adheres to rocks, as any species of Balanus proper: not specific.

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  • The parent during successive ages continuing to be adapted by selection for some one object, and the larva for quite another one, we need not wonder at the difference becoming wonderfully great between them; even as great as that between the fixed rock-barnacle and its free, crab-like offspring, which is furnished with eyes and well-articulated, locomotive limbs {483}.

    The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Charles Darwin 1845

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