cirriped

Other forms of cirriped

plural

cirripeds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cirriped

What does cirriped mean?

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

How many syllables are in cirriped?

cirriped has 2 syllables and divides as cir-riped under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cirriped?

Close synonyms include barnacle, cirripede. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cirriped a common word?

cirriped is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.