different between cirriped vs cirripede

cirriped

English

Alternative forms

  • cirrhopod (archaic)

Noun

cirriped (plural cirripeds)

  1. Any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia

Related terms

  • cirropodous

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cirripede

English

Noun

cirripede (plural cirripedes)

  1. Alternative spelling of cirriped
    • 1859 Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, p. 267:
      But my work had hardly been published, when a skilful palaeontologist, 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.

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