CIRRIPED

barnacle, cirriped, cirripede

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

cirriped (plural cirripeds)

Any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia.

Source: Wiktionary


Cir"ri*ped, n. (Zoöl.)

Definition: One of the Cirripedia.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

8 November 2024

REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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Coffee Trivia

Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.

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