cirriped
English
Alternative forms
- cirrhopod (archaic)
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Cirripedia. By surface analysis, cirri- + -ped. Doublet of cirripede.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪɹɪpɛd/
Noun
cirriped (plural cirripeds)
- 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!