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Goose barnacles
Answer for the clue "Goose barnacles ", 9 letters:
lepadidae
Word definitions for lepadidae in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lepadidae is a family of goose barnacles , erected by Charles Darwin in 1852. It contains the three genera Lepas , Conchoderma and Dosima .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lepadidae \Lepadidae\ prop. n. A natural family of crustaceans including the goose barnacles. Syn: family Lepadidae .
Usage examples of lepadidae.
But, as Fritz Müller remarks, we have in Anelasma an animal in an almost exactly intermediate condition, for it has rootlike processes embedded in the skin of the shark on which it is parasitic, and its prehensile cirri and mouth (as described in my monograph on the Lepadidae, 'Ray Soc.
Kossmann has given a very interesting discussion on this subject in his 'Suctoria and Lepadidae,' 1873.