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cirripede

DEFINITIONS OF: cirripede

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

Synonyms:
barnacle, cirriped
Types:
Balanus balanoides, acorn barnacle, rock barnacle
barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones
Lepas fascicularis, goose barnacle, gooseneck barnacle
stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers
Type of:
crustacean
any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
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