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English
Noun
cirripede (plural cirripedes)
- 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)
- barnacle