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cirripeds

cirripeds is the plural 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

Questions about cirripeds

What is cirripeds the plural of?
Cirripeds is the plural of cirriped.

Words near cirripeds in the dictionary

  1. cirripedian
  2. cirripedians
  3. cirripedologist
  4. cirripedologists
  5. cirripedology
  6. cirripeds
  7. cirro-
  8. cirro-cumuli
  9. cirro-cumulus
  10. Cirroc
  11. cirrocumular

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