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Meanings of cirripede in anglès

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Marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces.

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        Synonyms
        Examples for "barnacle"
        Examples for "barnacle"
        1
        He is a sort of barnacle, taken in on his wife's account.
        Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41
        2
        Are you here to take over for that old barnacle Captain Davis?
        A fare to remember: just whistle\driven to distraction\taken for...
        3
        She's a regular barnacle, and won't let me go for a minute.
        Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)
        4
        The method could be applied to quantify barnacle larvae in natural plankton samples.
        Pubmed
        5
        Michael switched his light on and made out a barnacle-crusted dock just ahead.
        The Wolf’s Hour
        Usage of cirripede in anglès
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        I have lately got a bisexual cirripede, the male being microscopically small and parasitic within the sack of the female.
        More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
        2
        I have re-read many parts, especially that on cirripedes, with the liveliest interest.
        More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
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        CIRRIPEDES.-Anorder of Crustaceans including the Barnacles and Acorn-shells.
        The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
        4
        The rhizocephalous crustaceans are allied to the cirripedes.
        Insectivorous Plants
        5
        September 9th: Finished packing up all my Cirripedes.
        More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
        6
        I used for cirripedes "cement gland."
        More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 / A Record of His Work...
        7
        The ovigerous frena of certain cirripedes, which have ceased to give attachment to the ova and are feebly developed, are nascent branchiae.
        The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
        8
        [In September, 1854, his Cirripede work was practically finished, and he wrote to Dr. Hooker:
        Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
        9
        -TheBalanidae (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidae, etc.
        Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
        10
        These cirripedes have no branchiae, the whole surface of the body and of the sack, together with the small frena, serving for respiration.
        The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
        11
        The ovigerous frena of certain cirripedes, which are only slightly developed and which have ceased to give attachment to the ova, are nascent branchiæ.
        On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / or the ...
        12
        In this last and complete state, cirripedes may be considered as either more highly or more lowly organised than they were in the larval condition.
        The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for cirripede
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        Cirripede through the time