Cirripedia – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Barnacle
Cirripedia
Noun
1. barnacles
(synonym) subclass Cirripedia
(hypernym) class
(member-holonym) Crustacea, class Crustacea
(member-meronym) barnacle, cerriped, cerripede
Cirripedia
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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