cirriped means any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
cirriped is pronounced /ˈsɪɹɪpɛd/.
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Cirripedia. By surface analysis, cirri- + -ped. Doublet of cirripede.
noun
- 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!”