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cirriped

Adjective, Noun

cir=ri=ped

WORDNET DICTIONARY

cirriped(n = noun.animal) barnacle, cirripede - marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces; Array

is a kind of crustacean

is a member of cirripedia, subclass cirripedia

has particulars: acorn barnacle, balanus balanoides, rock barnacle, goose barnacle, gooseneck barnacle, lepas fascicularis

cirriped, n.

One of the Cirripedia. [1913 Webster]

cirriped, n. (also cirripede) any marine crustacean of the class Cirripedia, having a valved shell and usu. sessile when adult, e.g. a barnacle.

Etymology

mod.L Cirripedia f. L cirrus curl (from the form of the legs) + pes pedis foot

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