Limpet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of numerous marine gastropod mollusks, as of the families Acmaeidae and Patellidae, characteristically having a conical shell and adhering to rocks of tidal areas.
  • n. One that clings persistently.
  • n. A type of explosive designed to cling to the hull of a ship and detonate on contact or signal.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small mollusc, of the family Patellidae with a conical shell found clinging to rocks in the intertidal zones of rocky shores.
  • n. Someone dependant; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell.
  • n. Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides.
  • n. Somthing or someone that clings tenaciously to another object or person
  • n. Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks.
  • n. A keyhole limpet. See Fissurella.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A marine docoglossate gastropod with an open conical shell imperforate at the apex.
  • n. Some mollusk resembling the foregoing, at least in shape of the shell.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. mollusk with a low conical shell
  • n. any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas
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