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Definition of Cirriped
1. Noun. Marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces.
Generic synonyms: Crustacean
Group relationships: Cirripedia, Subclass Cirripedia
Specialized synonyms: Acorn Barnacle, Balanus Balanoides, Rock Barnacle, Goose Barnacle, Gooseneck Barnacle, Lepas Fascicularis
Definition of Cirriped
1. n. One of the Cirripedia.
Definition of Cirriped
1. Noun. Any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass ''Cirripedia'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cirriped
1. any of an order of crustaceans [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cirriped
Literary usage of Cirriped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tenby: A Sea-side Holiday by Philip Henry Gosse (1856)
"cirriped LARVAE. Metamorphosis—New-born Acorn-barnacles—Description of them—
Their Manners—First Moult—Progress of Development— Second Moult—Further ..."
2. Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals by Richard Owen (1855)
"The antenna? are the organs by which the young cirriped finally anchors itself
to the spot where its future adult existence is to be spent. ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1843)
"From the researches of Mr Thompson relative to the metamorphosis of the cirriped,
there can be little doubt of the relation which they bear to the ..."
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