Crossword clues for limpet
limpet
- Cousin of a conch
- Mollusk with a low conical shell
- Found clinging to rocks in littoral areas
- Any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells
- Rock-clinging mollusk
- Gastropod with soft elegant shell
- Clingy sort of scamp, allowed outside
- Clingy type left Mike, taken by current favourite
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Limpet \Lim"pet\ (l[i^]m"p[e^]t), n. [Prob. through French fr. L. lepas, -adis, Gr. lepa`s, -a`dos.] (Zo["o]l.)
In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell.
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Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides.
Note: The common European limpets of the genus Patella (esp. Patella vulgata) are extensively used as food. The common New England species is Acm[ae]a testudinalis. Numerous species of limpets occur on the Pacific coast of America, some of them of large size.
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Hence: Somthing or someone that clings tenaciously to another object or person; specifically a military explosive device having magnets allowing it to cling to a metallic target object, such as the hull of a ship.
3. Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks.
A keyhole limpet. See Fissurella.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
marine gastropod mollusk, early 14c., from Old English lempedu, from Medieval Latin lampreda "limpet" (see lamprey).
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.
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
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 are members of the class Gastropoda, limpets are highly polyphyletic, meaning that the various groups that we call "limpets" have descended independently from different ancestral gastropods. This general category of conical shell is technically known as "patelliform", meaning dish-shaped. Some species of limpet live in fresh water, but these are the exception. All members of the large and ancient marine clade Patellogastropoda are limpets, and within that clade the family Patellidae in particular are often called the "true limpets".
Other groups, not in the same family, are also called limpets of one type or another, because of the similar shapes of their shells. Examples include the Fissurellidae, which are known as the "keyhole limpet" family. This family is part of the clade Vetigastropoda, however, many other members of the Vetigastropoda do not have the morphology of limpets.
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.