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noun-plural. 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.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

A subclass of low parasitic entomostracous crustaceans; the barnacles and a corn-shells.

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n. barnacles

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"Herschel's manual of Scientific Enquiry; publishes great works on recent and fossil cirripedia, 1851-4; receives Royal Medal of Royal Society, 1853, and Wollaston Medal of Geological"

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anatifa