Limpet meaning

lĭm'pĭt
(UK) Someone dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.

He stuck to me like a limpet all day!

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One that clings persistently.
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A type of explosive designed to cling to the hull of a ship and detonate on contact or signal.
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Any of numerous marine gastropod mollusks that have a conical shell and often adhere to rocks in intertidal areas, especially those of the order Patellogastropoda.
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A gastropod mollusk of various families, mostly marine, with a single, low, cone-shaped shell and a thick, fleshy foot, by means of which it clings to rocks, timbers, etc.
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A small mollusc, of the family Patellidae with a conical shell found clinging to rocks in the intertidal zones of rocky shores.
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Origin of limpet

  • Probably Middle English lempet limpet (sense uncertain) Old English lamprede lempedu lamprey (both the limpet and the lamprey being noted for their powerful suckers) from Medieval Latin lamprēda lamprey
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Limpet Sentence Examples

  • The common limpet is a specially interesting and abundant example of the more primitive Aspidobranchia.

  • ab, g, The limpet breeds upon the southern English coast in the early part of April, but its development has not been followed.

  • The foot of the limpet is a nearly circular disk of muscular tissue; in front, projecting from and raised above it, are the head and neck (figs.

  • The eyes of the limpet deserve mention as examples of the most primitive kind of eye in the Molluscan series.

  • At low tide the limpet (being a strictly intertidal organism) is exposed to the air, and (according to trustworthy observers) quits its attachment and walks away in search of food (minute encrusting algae), and then once more returns to the identical spot, not an inch in diameter, which belongs, as it were, to it.

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