Definition of Lepadidae

1. Noun. Goose barnacles.

Exact synonyms: Family Lepadidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Cirripedia, Subclass Cirripedia
Member holonyms: Genus Lepas, Lepas

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lepadidae

Leontodon autumnalis
Leontopodium
Leontopodium alpinum
Leontyne Price
Leonurus
Leonurus cardiaca
Leopold
Leopold's manoeuvres
Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski
Leopold Kronecker
Leopold Stokowski
Leopoldville
Leora
Leos
Leotia lubrica
Lepadidae (current term)
Lepanto
Lepas fascicularis
Lepcha
Lepechinia
Lepechinia calycina
Lepehne
Lepehne-Pickworth stain
Lepidium
Lepidium alpina
Lepidium sativum
Lepidobotryaceae
Lepidochelys
Lepidochelys kempii
Lepidochelys olivacea

Literary usage of Lepadidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1901)
"Aurivillius considered that Pollicipes signatus showed a closer approach to the Balanidae than any other of the Lepadidae, but he too, in ignorance of the ..."

2. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"The medieval zoologists supposed the Lepadidae to be the young of ... Lepadidae a, No stalk present. 6, On rocks, timbers, ete 3. BALANIDAE 6, On whales 4. ..."

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