Definition of Cirripeds

1. Noun. (plural of cirriped) ¹

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Definition of Cirripeds

1. cirriped [n] - See also: cirriped

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cirripeds

cirrhoses
cirrhosis
cirrhosis of the liver
cirrhotic
cirrhotics
cirrhous
cirrhus
cirri
cirriferous
cirriform
cirrigerous
cirrigrade
cirriped
cirripede
cirripedes
cirripeds (current term)
cirrocumuli
cirrocumulus
cirrocumulus cloud
cirrose
cirrostrati
cirrostratus
cirrostratus cloud
cirrous
cirrus
cirrus cloud
cirruses
cirsectomy
cirsoceles

Literary usage of Cirripeds

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1843)
"It has hitherto been a question whether the sexes in the cirripeds are distinct as male and female, or are combined in the same individual; and the opinions ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Latreille further, in 1801, recognised the cirripeds as intermediate between ... the Crustaceans, and the cirripeds. But he has no province answering to the ..."

3. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1837)
"The sessile cirripeds ; 2nd. The pedunculate«! cirri- peds. ... He says that the sessile cirripeds seem to represent the animal» -»hu-h terminate the ..."

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