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UK
/lˈɪmpɪt/
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NOUN
- mollusk with a low conical shell
- any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas
How To Use limpet In A Sentence
- Two species of limpets, previously unrecorded for the West Point area, have also been found during this study.
- Two thirds along things change, there are some scattered rocks covered in barnacles, limpets, mussels and seaweed.
- The sand was dotted with saucer - sized jellyfish, rocks and pools are squidgy with jelly buttons encrusted with limpets, barnacles and winkles and are seedbeds for mussels.
- Lottiid and especially fissurelid limpets, neither of which feed predominately on macroalgae, also have given rise to large-bodied taxa in certain temperate oceans.
- The DC were also exposed to keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), which was used as a surrogate marker to show an immune response. Newswise: Latest News
- He provided his usual limpet-like support for Lara, working the singles, and being content to feed the strike, as they added 169 in just over 30 overs.
- Brains of limpets and abalones are much simpler than brains of garden snails and slugs in histological differentiation.
- Slipper limpets have also made their way across the Atlantic, taking over areas off the coast of the British Isles and Northern Europe.
- The ‘lock-and-key’ fit of homing limpets may have more to do with resistance to dislodgment than with desiccation.
- This mecon in the turbinated genera is lodged in the spiral part of the shell, while in univalves, such as limpets, it occupies the fundus, and in bivalves is placed near the hinge, the so-called ovum lying on the right; while on the opposite side is the vent. On the Parts of Animals