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One of the 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 group. See Anatifa.

A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.

ormal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle.

rnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia.

A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs.

Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. Barnacle eater (Zoöl.), the orange filefish. -- Barnacle scale (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ce…

ucopsis), of Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related species. See Anatifa and Cirripedia.

The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychæta.

d barnacle of the genus Anatifa or Lepas; -- called also duck barnacle. See Barnacle, and Cirripedia. -- Goose cap, a silly person. [Obs.] Beau. & . -- Goose corn (Bot.), a coarse kind of rush (Juncus squarrosus). -- Goose feast, Michaelmas. [Colloq. Eng.] -- Goose flesh, a peculiar roughness of the skin produced by…

A degenerate order of Crustacea, including the Rhizocephala and Cirripedia.

A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles.

One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.

A division of cirripeds including those which have six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are examples.