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LEPAS FASCICULARIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Lepas fascicularis mean?
• LEPAS FASCICULARIS (noun)
The noun LEPAS FASCICULARIS has 1 sense:
1. stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers
Familiarity information: LEPAS FASCICULARIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
goose barnacle; gooseneck barnacle; Lepas fascicularis
Hypernyms ("Lepas fascicularis" is a kind of...):
barnacle; cirriped; cirripede (marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces)
Holonyms ("Lepas fascicularis" is a member of...):
genus Lepas; Lepas (type genus of the family Lepadidae)
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