What is "lepas"

Lepas \Le"pas\ (l[=e]"p[a^]s), n. [L., a limpet, fr. Gr. lepa`s.] (Zo["o]l.) 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.

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.]

Bernicle goose (Zo["o]l.), a goose ( Branta leucopsis), of Arctic Europe and Americ

1. 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.

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

Lepas is a genus of goose barnacles in the family Lepadidae.