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cirriped, -pede Zool.|ˈsɪrɪpɛd, -piːd|
Erroneously cirrhi-.
[a. mod.F. cirripède, f. mod.L. pl. cirripeda, -pedia (also used in Eng.), f. cirrus curl + pes, ped- foot. See cirrh-, cirrhopod.]
A member of the Cirripedia or Cirripeda, a class of marine animals of the Sub-kingdom Annulosa, closely related to the Crustacea, but in the adult state much less developed; enclosed in a shell consisting of many valves which is cemented, sessile or attached by a flexible stalk, to other bodies. They include the barnacles and acorn-shells. The name refers to the appearance of the legs, which can be protruded like a curled lock of hair from between the valves.
1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 121 Class IV.—Cirripeda (Mollusca Cirrhopoda, Cuv.). 1832Lyell Princ. Geol. II. 108 So loaded with cirrhipeds, and with numerous ova, that all the upper part of its shell is invisible. 1855Gosse Marine Zool. i. 168 The bivalve shell is thrown off, and the little cirriped is seen in its true form. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. iv. (1873) 79 Cirripedes long appeared to me to present..a case of great difficulty.
attrib.1865Reader No. 150. 545/1 The cirriped order of crustacea. |
