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Cirriped

//ˈsɪɹɪpɛd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia

    "What train of wives and concubines was ever so ignominiously placed as the extra husbands carried among the scales of the careful female cirriped, lest she lose one or two!"

  2. 2
    marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Cirripedia. By surface analysis, cirri- + -ped. Doublet of cirripede.

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