cirriped

Definitions of cirriped
  1. noun
    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, cirripede
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    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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