cirriped
English
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[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!