βάλᾰνος [βᾰ], ἡ,
acorn, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.242, 13.409, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 603b31, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.8.3 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: any similar fruit, date, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.193, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.15, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Indica” 11.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Διὸς β. see at {Διοσβάλανο; β. μυρεψική} bān, Balanites aegyptiaca, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.157, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.2.1. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 tree which bears βάλανοι,[[ [prev. work] 6, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 34.8.1, LXX.Gen.35.8. ] LXX+2nd c.BC+]
__II from similarity of shape,
__II.1 a sea shell-fish, barnacle, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 535a24, 547b22, 1st c.AD: Xenocrates Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 2.58.50. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2 glans penis,[[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 493a27, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 413, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.381. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 air-vessel of a seaweed, bladder-wrack, Fucus vesiculosus, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.6.9. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]