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cirriped

/ˈsɪɹɪpɛd/

cirriped noun: any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia.

Noun

cirriped (plural cirripeds)

  1. Any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia
    • 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!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

cirriped meaning in Bengali

cirriped in Bengali

ইনফ্রাক্লাসের যেকোনো বারনাকল, অনুরূপ ক্রাস্টেসিয়ান

Forms of cirriped

pluralcirripeds
alternative form (archaic)cirrhopod

Origin of cirriped

Borrowed from translingual Cirripedia. By surface analysis, cirri- + -ped. Doublet of cirripede.

Words formed from cirriped

Questions about cirriped

What does cirriped mean?
Cirriped means any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia.
What is cirriped in Bengali?
Cirriped in Bengali is ইনফ্রাক্লাসের যেকোনো বারনাকল, অনুরূপ ক্রাস্টেসিয়ান. See Cirriped meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is cirriped?
Cirriped is a noun.
How do you pronounce cirriped?
Cirriped is pronounced /ˈsɪɹɪpɛd/.
What is the plural of cirriped?
The plural of cirriped is cirripeds.

Words near cirriped in the dictionary

  1. cirriform
  2. cirrigerous
  3. cirrigrade
  4. Cirrincione
  5. Cirrinciones
  6. cirriped
  7. cirripede
  8. cirripedes
  9. cirripedial
  10. cirripedian
  11. cirripedians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cirriped (page history and authors); cirriped (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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