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Limpet   Listen
noun
Limpet  n.  (Zool.)
1.
In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell.
2.
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 Acmaea testudinalis. Numerous species of limpets occur on the Pacific coast of America, some of them of large size.
3.
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.
4.
Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks.
5.
A keyhole limpet. See Fissurella.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Limpet" Quotes from Famous Books



... admit that you are in practice as ideal as in theory. I mean the process will be reversed. Some woman, whose Well-Beloved flits about as yours does now, will catch your eye, and you'll stick to her like a limpet, while she follows her Phantom and leaves you to ache ...
— The Well-Beloved • Thomas Hardy

... the boat was nearing the ship, and that Date, torn and wet and disheveled, with three policemen, was up to his waist in water, struggling to bring ashore Cockatoo and the mummy case, to which he clung like a limpet. Hope ran down to give a hand, and in a few minutes they had the Kanaka ashore, fighting like the demon he was. Random and De Gayangos joined the breathless group, and Cockatoo was held in the grasp of two strong men—who required all their strength ...
— The Green Mummy • Fergus Hume

... and Scriptural import of heresy, that is, wilful error, or belief originating in some perversion of the will; and of heretics, (for such there are, nay, even orthodox heretics), that is, men wilfully unconscious of their own wilfulness, in their limpet-like adhesion ...
— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Words linked to "Limpet" :   Gasteropoda, keyhole limpet, class Gastropoda, shellfish, river limpet, common limpet, seasnail, Patella vulgata, Gastropoda, Fissurella apertura



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