Lepas Definition

Lepas Sentence Examples

• In some variants of the story this shell is said to grow as a kind of mushroom on rotting timber in the sea, and is obviously one of the barnacles of the genus Lepas.

• As shown by Burmeister in his historical review (1834), these animals, comprised by Linnaeus in the genus Lepas, first received a more comprehensive title from Cuvier, who called them Cirrhopoda, a word strictly meaning tawnyfooted.

• C. Eckman, who late in the summer observed great masses of Lepas fascicularis forming broad belts in the North Sea.

• The fecundity in the genus Lepas has struck many observers.

• Willemoes Suhm supposed, to Lepas australis, or even to the genus Lepas at all.