lepas

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lepas - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lepas \Le"pas\ (l[=e]"p[a^]s), n. [L., a limpet, fr. Gr.
     lepa`s.] (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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  Bernicle \Ber"ni*cle\, n. [OE. bernak, bernacle; cf. OF. bernac;
     prob. fr. LL. bernacula for hibernicula, bernicula, fr.
     Hibernia; the birds coming from Hibernia or Ireland. Cf. 1st
     Barnacle.]
     A bernicle goose. [Written also barnacle.]
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     Bernicle goose (Zool.), a goose (Branta leucopsis), of
        Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that
        it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which
        were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or
        Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related
        species. See Anatifa and Cirripedia.
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lepas - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Lepas
      n 1: type genus of the family Lepadidae [syn: Lepas, genus Lepas
           ]