Meanings
plural cirripedes
- alternativeAlternative spelling of cirriped.
But my work had hardly been published, when a skilful palæontologist, M. Bosquet, sent me a drawing of a perfect specimen of an unmistakeable sessile cirripede, which he had himself extracted from the chalk of Belgium.
1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “On the Imperfection of the Geological Record”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 304
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
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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