Lepas

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun 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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