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Lepas  n.  (Zool.) Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle.





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"Lepas" Quotes from Famous Books



... as a great delicacy, and is an article of trade between the Malays and Chinese. Large quantities of pumice-stone were also seen floating on the water; on one piece was found a sea centipede (Amphinome sp.), about four inches long, covered with fine bristly hair; it was feeding upon two barnacles (Lepas anatifera) which had attached themselves ...
— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia - Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 • Phillip Parker King


Words linked to "Lepas" :   gooseneck barnacle, arthropod genus, family Lepadidae, Lepas fascicularis


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