cirriped
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from translingual Cirripedia. By surface analysis, cirri- + -ped. Doublet of cirripede.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cirriped (plural cirripeds)
- Any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia
- 1898, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics – A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, page 147:
- What train of wives and concubines was ever so ignominiously placed as the extra husbands carried among the scales of the careful female cirriped, lest she lose one or two!
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Translingual
- English terms derived from Translingual
- English terms prefixed with cirri-
- English terms suffixed with -ped
- English doublets
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Barnacles