单词 | cirriped |
释义 | cirripedcirripeden. Zoology. A member of the Cirripedia or Cirripeda, a class of marine animals of the Sub-kingdom Annulosa, closely related to the Crustacea, but in the adult state much less developed; enclosed in a shell consisting of many valves which is cemented, sessile or attached by a flexible stalk, to other bodies. They include the barnacles and acorn-shells. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Entomostraca > order Cirripedia > member of cirriped1828 nematopode1837 cirrhopod1843 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 121 Class IV.—Cirripeda (Mollusca Cirrhopoda, Cuv.). 1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 2) II. 108 So loaded with cirrhipeds, and with numerous ova, that all the upper part of its shell is invisible. 1855 P. H. Gosse Man. Marine Zool. I. 168 The bivalve shell is thrown off,..and the little Cirriped is seen in its true form. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iv. 101 Cirripedes long appeared to me to present..a case of great difficulty. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1828 |
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