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CIRRIPED
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I. (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
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cirriped" 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 "cirriped"):
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 ("cirriped" is a member of...):
Cirripedia; subclass Cirripedia (barnacles)
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