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cirriped

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having feet like cirri; specifically, pertaining to the Cirripedia. Also cirropodous.
  • noun One of the Cirripedia.
  • noun Also cirrhiped, cirrhipede, cirrhopod, cirrhopode, cirropod, cirropode.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) One of the Cirripedia.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces

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hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. crustacean

hyponyms (6)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. acorn barnacle
  2. balanus balanoides
  3. goose barnacle
  4. gooseneck barnacle
  5. lepas fascicularis
  6. rock barnacle

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  • jmjarmstrong commented on the word cirriped

    JM has never been attached to cirripeds.

    February 14, 2011