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Definition of Cirripedia
1. Noun. Barnacles.
Group relationships: Class Crustacea, Crustacea
Member holonyms: Barnacle, Cirriped, Cirripede, Balanidae, Family Balanidae, Family Lepadidae, Lepadidae
Generic synonyms: Class
Definition of Cirripedia
1. n. pl. An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cirripedia
Literary usage of Cirripedia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eúgen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"cirripedia. The cirripedia, which have been modified in a remarkable manner in
connection with their attached mode of life, have often been placed in close ..."
2. An Introduction to the Study of Fossils (plants and Animals) by Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1914)
"SUB-CLASS 5, cirripedia (BARNACLES) Body imperfectly segmented; ... The cirripedia
are known from the Ordovician to the present, but have been abundant only ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"On the Development of the cirripedia. By C. SPENCE BATE. [With three Plates.]
Feeling a little curiosity in relation to the subject, and wishing to verify ..."
4. Text-book of Zoology for Junior Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1888)
"ORDER cirripedia. The last order of Crustacea is that of the cirripedia (Lat.
cirrus ... The cirripedia were formerly described as " multivalve " shell-fish ..."
5. A treatise on comparative embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1880)
"The larvae of all the cirripedia, with one or two exceptions, leave the egg in
the Nauplius condition. The Nauplii differ somewhat in the separate groups, ..."
6. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"Sub Class V. cirripedia. The barnacles differ from all other Crustacea in that
they have lost their locomotor powers and live attached to ..."
7. Charles Darwin, His Life and Work: His Life and Work by Charles Frederick Holder (1891)
"... Mould"—"The cirripedia"—The Wallace Incident—Collecting Material for the "Origin
of Species"—Success of the Work—Time Spent in Authorship—Religion—Final ..."
8. Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Bookedited by Charles Morris edited by Charles Morris (1921)
"But for practical _ purposes the Crustacea may be considered as ranging themselves
under four subclasses: the cirripedia, ..."
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