cirriped

English

Alternative forms

• cirrhopod (archaic)

Etymology

From cirri- +‎ -ped.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹɪpɛd/

Noun

cirriped (plural cirripeds)

1. Any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia
   • 1898, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics – A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, page 147:

     What train of wives and concubines was ever so ignominiously placed as the extra husbands carried among the scales of the careful female cirriped, lest she lose one or two!

Derived terms

• cirripedology

Related terms

• cirropodous