Lēp'a-dite, n.

n. [Lat. lepas, lepadis, from Gr. λεπάς, λεπάδος, a shell-fish.] (Zool.) One of an order of cirripeds, having a long, flexible, contractile stem fixed by its base to some solid body, and supporting at its extremity the principal parts of the animal inclosed in a multivalve shell or a coriaceous case.