cirripede

English

Noun

cirripede (plural cirripedes)

1. Alternative spelling of cirriped
   • 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “On the Imperfection of the Geological Record”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 304:

     But my work had hardly been published, when a skilful palæontologist, M. Bosquet, sent me a drawing of a perfect specimen of an unmistakeable sessile cirripede, which he had himself extracted from the chalk of Belgium.

Italian

Etymology

From cirri (“tendril”) +‎ Latin pede (“foot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃirˈri.pe.de/
• Rhymes: -ipede
• Hyphenation: cir‧rì‧pe‧de

Noun

cirripede m (plural cirripedi)

1. barnacle