Lepas

Quick meaning: Lepas is a noun meaning (archaic) Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.

Meaning

(archaic) Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.

Example Sentences

60. The tiger tower, a mitres, a lithophagus, a purple rayed solen, a lepas, and 9 other shells.

It was probably either a large mytilus, a meleagrina, or a pinna, and was certainly not a lepas.

The peduncles of the lepases are flexible; and Dr. Weatherill has ascribed to the species which he has noticed in V. 339–342., the power of availing itself of this flexibility in "extending, shrinking, and writhing itself at pleasure."

Word Forms

• lepases

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lepadoid, lepadiform, barnacle, neolepadine, lepisosteid, leptoscopid.

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