Word Meanings - CIRRIPED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the Cirripedia.

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• CIRRIPEDIA
  An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the