Zool. [ad. mod.F. cirrhopode (Cuvier), mod.L. pl. Cirrhopoda, f. assumed Gr. κιῥῥο-ς (see CIRRH-) + ποδ- foot.] = CIRRIPED.
The name Cirrhopoda has been used for the class CIRRIPEDIA, especially when they were associated with the Mollusks (cf. Gasteropoda), or the Crustacea (cf. Amphipoda).
[1837. Penny Cycl., VII. 202/1. Cirrhopodes of Cuvier and Férussac.]
1843. Humble, Dict. Geol. & Min., 47/2. The cirrhopods are articulated animals, enclosed in shells like those of mollusca.
1847. Carpenter, Zool., § 828. Cirrhopods attached by a long fleshy peduncle or foot-stalk.
1855. Kingsley, Glaucus (1878), 117. A little cirrhipod, the cousin of those tiny barnacles which roughen every rock.