CIRRIPEDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cirripede mean? 

• CIRRIPEDE (noun)
  The noun CIRRIPEDE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CIRRIPEDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIRRIPEDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

barnacle; cirriped; cirripede

Hypernyms ("cirripede" is a kind of...):

crustacean (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cirripede"):

acorn barnacle; Balanus balanoides; rock barnacle (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)

Holonyms ("cirripede" is a member of...):

Cirripedia; subclass Cirripedia (barnacles)