1. marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces; [syn: barnacle, cirriped, cirripede]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cirripede
n 1: marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages;
free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and
live attached to submerged surfaces [syn: barnacle,
cirriped, cirripede]