a. and sb. [f. Gr. λεπαδ-, λέπας limpet + -OID.] a. adj. Resembling a barnacle or goose-mussel. b. sb. A lepadoid animal.
1843. Owen, Invertebr. An., I. xiii. 155. The Cirripedes are divided … into two primary groups,—viz. the pedunculated, or Lepadoids, and the sessile, or Balanoids.
