Etymology

cirriped

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Today it means: Any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia Full definition →

translingual Cirripedia
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  1. translingual · borrowed fromCirripedia
  2. English todaycirriped

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

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