HyperDic: cirriped

English > 1 sense of the word cirriped:
NOUNanimalcirriped, barnacle, cirripedemarine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages
English > cirriped: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningmarine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces.
Synonymsbarnacle, cirripede
Member ofCirripedia, subclass Cirripediabarnacles
Narroweracorn barnacle, rock barnacle, Balanus balanoidesbarnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones
goose barnacle, gooseneck barnacle, Lepas fascicularisstalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers / timbers
BroadercrustaceanAny mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
Spanishpercebe
Catalanpercebe

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