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Cirripede

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Noun

1. barnacle, cirriped, cirripede

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cirripede

see synonyms of cirripede
noun
1. 
any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, including the barnacles, the adults of which are sessile or parasitic
adjective
2. 
of, relating to, or belonging to the Cirripedia

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Cirripede

see synonyms of cirripede
n.
Any of various crustaceans of the subclass Cirripedia, which includes the barnacles and related organisms that attach themselves to objects or become parasitic in the adult stage.

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