cirripede (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *cirripede*:
NOUN	animal	cirripede, barnacle, cirriped	marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages

English > *cirripede*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces.
Synonyms	barnacle, cirriped
Member of	Cirripedia, subclass Cirripedia	barnacles
Narrower	acorn barnacle, rock barnacle, Balanus balanoides	barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones
Narrower	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

HyperDic: cirripede