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cirripede

cirripede is the alternative spelling of cirriped.

Meaning of cirriped

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

Forms of cirripede

pluralcirripedes

Questions about cirripede

What is cirripede the alternative spelling of?
Cirripede is the alternative spelling of cirriped.

Words near cirripede in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cirripede (page history and authors); cirriped (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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