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Definition of Cirripedes
1. cirripede [n] - See also: cirripede
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cirripedes
Literary usage of Cirripedes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles Darwin (1854)
"cirripedes are commonly bisexual or hermaphrodite, but in Ibla, ... not even to
suspect, until a long period afterwards, that these males were cirripedes. ..."
2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"8vo., and Entomología Neapolitana Specimen, 1787, folio. cirripedes ... But the
anatomical structure of the cirripedes (of the nervous system particularly) ..."
3. The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as by Francis Henry Egerton Bridgewater (1837)
"But what if these cirripedes should at last prove to be, not the guides to the
great Crustacean host, but its legitimate progeny 1 This has been asserted, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... in common with cirripedes, molluscs, Bryozoa, and sponges, of perforating
rocks, stones, shells, and other solid media, Tke most conspicuous ..."
5. On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation of by William Kirby (1835)
"cirripedes. HERE is a class of animals defended by multi- valve shells, separated
from the ... cirripedes ..."
6. Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, Edward William Brayley (1825)
"A Synopsis of the Genera of cirripedes arranged in Natural Families, with a
Description of some new Species. By John Edward Gray, Esq. FGS.&c. ..."
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