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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of thoracic or ordinary cirripeds, of the family Lepadidæ, established by Bruguière; barnacles, goose-mussels, or tree-geese.
  • noun See Lepadidæ, Lepas.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See cirripedia.

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