ˌsirəˈlanə, -lä-, -lā- noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, coined ab 1818 by William E. Leach died 1836 British naturalist
: a widely distributed genus (the type of the family Cirolanidae) of small more or less ovate gregarious marine isopods with setose palps and maxillipeds that are sometimes pests at bathing beaches because of their vicious biting