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Gastropod with soft elegant shell
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limpet
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Flora clung to her, like a limpet . ▪ Impressions gleaned in childhood and rein forced in adolescence cling like limpets into adulthood despite valiant efforts to shake them off. ▪ Nails stuck on Firelight like a limpet . ▪ Police ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
marine gastropod mollusk, early 14c., from Old English lempedu , from Medieval Latin lampreda "limpet" (see lamprey ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A limpet is an aquatic snail with a shell that is broadly conical in shape. "Limpet" informally refers to any gastropod whose shell has no obvious coiling, like the coiling which can be seen in the shells of garden snails or winkles . Although all limpets ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. mollusk with a low conical shell any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A small mollusc, of the family Patellidae with a conical shell found clinging to rocks in the intertidal zones of rocky shores. 2 (rft-sense) (context British English) Someone dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.
Usage examples of limpet.
He heard and tasted the weathered gnarls of the rock, and the seaweed and barnacles, periwinkles and limpets, anemones and starfish that inhabited the intertidal zone.
As to the fauna, it might be counted by thousands of crustacea of all sorts, lobsters, crabs, spider-crabs, chameleon shrimps, and a large number of shells, rockfish, and limpets.
Particles adhered to my skin--thousands of years between finger and thumb, these atoms of quartz, and sunlight shining all that time, and flowers blooming and life glowing in all, myriads of living things, from the cold still limpet on the rock to the burning, throbbing heart of man.
As I hit the railway sleepers that made up the walkway, I could see her still playing the limpet, the current pushing her head against the support as she fought to keep it out of the river.
As soon as the water boiled they threw in rock fish, limpets, sea urchins, a dentex or two, and a green-haired stone to make the food smell of the sea.
In a little while they would add the giltheads and red mullets, for how could they be satisfied with just rock fish and limpets.
Fatally compromised and incognizant of this fact, a shortish nanosecond burst of information directed Hub-wards was the last action of the stubborn nchoi Limpet as the Gromburg thing destroyed it.
A medley of lobster, crab, king crab, prawn, shrimp, oyster, clam, giant mussel, green-lipped mussel, thin-lipped mussel and Fighting Tiger Limpet.
His eyes fastened upon Master Li like a pair of limpets, and he scuttled up and fell to his knees and began kowtowing energetically.
Reeky, hurtling over the convoy had had time only to plant one limpet bomb on one vehicle before rocketing out of range.
I saw Basingstoke in tights and air mask, swimming through lucid tropical waters to fix a limpet bomb to the hull of a cruise ship.
The little limpet mine would have a trigger and a timing device and there would be careful instruction on how to set it.
In a whisper, he had told the girl of the limpet mine against the side of the ship timed to explode a few minutes after six o'clock and he had explained the factors that would decide who would die that morning.
A shaped-charge cobalt limpet mine, something the team had been saving ever since the raid on Colonel Wolff's goodies warehouse.
There was only one limpet mine, and Lancer was placing that to the best advantage.