Cirriped (Noun)

Meaning

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

Classification

Nouns denoting animals.

Synonyms

• Barnacle
• Cirripede

Hypernyms

• Crustacean

Hyponyms

• Acorn Barnacle
• Balanus Balanoides
• Lepas Fascicularis
• Goose Barnacle