cirriped
English Thesaurus
1. marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | crustacean, |
| definition | : | any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | acorn barnacle, balanus balanoides, rock barnacle, |
| definition | : | barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | goose barnacle, gooseneck barnacle, lepas fascicularis, |
| definition | : | stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | cirripedia, subclass cirripedia, |
| definition | : | barnacles (noun.animal) |
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