cirripede

/ ˈsɪrɪˌpiːd; ˈsɪrɪˌpɛd /

noun

1. any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, including the barnacles, the adults of which are sessile or parasitic

adjective

1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Cirripedia

cirripede

/ sîr′ə-pēd′ /

1. Any of various small marine crustaceans of the subclass Cirripedia, which includes the barnacles. Some cirripedes become internal parasites of other marine invertebrates in the adult stage, while others (the barnacles) attach themselves to objects and grow a hard shell. Cirripedes are related to copepods.

Example Sentences

The Complemental males of certain cirripedes live like epiphytic plants either on the female or hermaphrodite form, and are destitute of a mouth and prehensile limbs.

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The ultimate segment has on the middle of the outer margin, in A. cornuta, two minute spines, which I have not observed in any other cirripede: on the summit there are the usual spines.

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While on the coast of Chili he had found a curious new cirripede, to understand the structure of which he had to examine and dissect many of the common forms.

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So again the two main divisions of cirripedes, the pedunculated and sessile, which differ widely in external appearance, have larv� in all their stages barely distinguishable.

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If one rare cirripede, the Anelasma squalicola, had become extinct, it would have been very difficult to conjecture how so enormous a change could have been gradually effected.

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