Barnacle
in zoölogy, (1) A general name for both pedunculated and sessile cirripeds. (2) Special: The English padidæ), as contradistinguished from those which are sessile, yet more especially applied to the lepas, the typical genus of the family and order. name of the pedunculated cirripeds (le- In ornithology the name for the barnacle goose. Formerly the absurb belief was entertained that these geese sprung from the barnacles described above. Two species of the genus lepas were called, by Linnæus, lepas anserifera and L. anatifera goose-bearing, of course with no belief in the fable suggested by the name.