cirriped

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/ˈsɪɹɪpɛd/

noun

Any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia

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barnaclecirripede
Origintranslingual Cirripedia →
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Meanings

nouncirriped (plural cirripeds)

plural cirripeds · alternative archaic cirrhopod

  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!

    1898, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics – A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, page 147

Synonyms & antonyms

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

Similar
barnaclecirripede
Broader
crustacean
Also see
barnacle

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. translingualCirripedia
  2. Englishcirriped

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

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APA

cirriped. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cirriped

MLA

“cirriped.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cirriped. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cirriped,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cirriped.

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