| NOUN | animal | cirriped, barnacle, cirripede | marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages |
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| Meaning | marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces. | |
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| Synonyms | barnacle, cirripede | |
| Member of | Cirripedia, subclass Cirripedia | barnacles |
| Narrower | acorn barnacle, rock barnacle, Balanus balanoides | barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones |
| goose barnacle, gooseneck barnacle, Lepas fascicularis | stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers / timbers | |
| Broader | crustacean | Any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton |
| Spanish | percebe | |
| Catalan | percebe | |
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