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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The typical genus of Lepadidæ; goose-mussels proper.

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

  • noun (Zoöl.) 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun type genus of the family Lepadidae

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From the genus name.

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