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limpet - use in sentences
Preposition: on
- shore: Environmental effects on the diurnal activity budgets of residential Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus feeding on limpets on rocky shores.
Converse of object
- like: I think they'll end up all over me like limpets.
- select: A study can investigate what would be the reason for selecting the less profitable limpets.
- dislodge: This blow is often sufficient to dislodge the limpet, failing this the shell is gripped in the bill and prised off.
- eat: Behavior in Captivity In aquaria, I could not get them to eat the limpets, Patella.
- collect: The women would have collected food limpets and mussels from the rocks, berries and nuts from the woods.
- find: You can find limpets on all the rocky shores of the Marine Reserve.
Adjective modifier
- large: Their prey is not always defenseless: large limpets may stamp their shells down on the foot of an attacking whelk.
- common: The common limpet is the most abundant by far.
- profitable: A study can investigate what would be the reason for selecting the less profitable limpets.
Modifies a noun
- shell: Limpet shells were used in medicine to regulate the dose.
- mine: The bomb, a limpet mine, is thought to have been planted by the Vietcong.
- reply: Limpet Replies: 18 Views: 158 RE: What hav eI done?
- radula: Below you can see the detail of teeth of a limpet radula.
- population: However, the potential for long term impacts on limpet populations in the Haven is not considered to be large.
- mortality: Weed Growth The consequences of the high limpet mortality were quickly observed.
Noun used with modifier
- keyhole: KLH comes from a sea creature called the keyhole limpet mollusk that lives on the southern California coast.
- slipper: Slipper limpets, which form stacks attached to seashore rocks, change sex according to their position in the stack.
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