EGAVE

limpet

About 0.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces.
  2. noun Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.
    He stuck to me like a limpet all day!
  3. verb To gather limpets.

Similar words

hemocyanin haemocyanin keyhole vulgata keyhole limpet file shell black limpet cockle lilliput fissurelloid

Often followed by

hemocyanin mines shells to mine and haemocyanin patella is

Word family

limpets

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