cirriped en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈsɪɹɪpɛd/
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Cirripedia. By surface analysis, cirri- + -ped. Doublet of cirripede.
Meanings
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Any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia
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!
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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cirrhopod | alternative, archaic | lexicographic | |
| cirripeds | Number=Plur | lexicographic |