How To Use Limpet In A Sentence
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Two species of limpets, previously unrecorded for the West Point area, have also been found during this study.
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Two thirds along things change, there are some scattered rocks covered in barnacles, limpets, mussels and seaweed.
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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.
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Lottiid and especially fissurelid limpets, neither of which feed predominately on macroalgae, also have given rise to large-bodied taxa in certain temperate oceans.
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The DC were also exposed to keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), which was used as a surrogate marker to show an immune response.
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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.
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Brains of limpets and abalones are much simpler than brains of garden snails and slugs in histological differentiation.
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Slipper limpets have also made their way across the Atlantic, taking over areas off the coast of the British Isles and Northern Europe.
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The ‘lock-and-key’ fit of homing limpets may have more to do with resistance to dislodgment than with desiccation.
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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
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The shape of a limpet's shell has a great deal to do with whether the animal remains securely attached to its rock or is ripped off and thrown onto dry land or into the waiting tentacles of a hungry sea anemone.
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In Galway Bay, Ireland, a live limpet or periwinkle used to be placed at the corners of the house to ensure successful fishing.
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Impressions gleaned in childhood and rein forced in adolescence cling like limpets into adulthood despite valiant efforts to shake them off.
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The adhesion mechanism of barnacle , limpet, anemone, tube worm are described in this paper.
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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
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Here we study keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH2) tridecamers to unravel the exact association mode of the third decamer.
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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.
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Someone had stacked up dozens of conical limpet shells to form narrow, teetering towers on the shelves where delft once stood.
FALSE MERMAID
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To study the effects of a primary immune response to T-cell dependent antigens on central serotonin(-HT)metabolism, keyhole limpet hemocyanin(KLH)was administered intraperitoneally to F male rats.
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The owl limpet (Lottia gigantean) which clings to rocks in the ocean intertidal zone has a "right-handed" body organization.
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This dwelling is in shape and appearance like the back shell of a tortoise, or, still more, like a "limpet," being attached to the stem of the tree in the same manner that the latter adheres to a rock.
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Such analysis is also applicable to limpet gastropods and monoplacophorans, and it might help in studies of developmental constraints on the aperture map through early evolution of conchiferous molluscs.
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Sea urchins Arbacia dufresnii are abundant in the marine area, as are whelks Argobuccinun sp., chitons, starfishes, sea anemones, bryzoans, barnacles, slipper limpets, nudibranchs and sponges.
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Perhaps it would be a little shore crab that betrayed itself by scuffling down amongst the corallite or sea-weed, perhaps a little fierce-looking bristly fish, which shot under a ledge of the rock all amongst the limpets, acorn barnacles, or the thousands of yellow and brown and striped snaily fellows that crawled about in company with the periwinkles and pelican's feet.
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Tiny periwinkles, found in profusion in intertidal areas, are gastropods; as are giant tun shells from the deep waters and the quiet limpets who cling to rocks at low tide.
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The Prime Minister clung to his job like a limpet, despite calls for him to resign.
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It seems that as limpets creep across rocks, eating algae, they also eat chalk.
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It is the realm of periwinkles, limpets, rock lice, and barnacles.
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In February 1965, I went to New Zealand to study two kinds of bioluminescent organisms: the cave worm Arachnocampa and the freshwater limpet Latia.
Osamu Shimomura - Autobiography
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The cone shape of the limpet can be visualised lying on its side to form the outline of the cuttlefish body, but it takes a lot of imagination.
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The Oormer is a single-shelled gastropod that crawls (limpet-like) over the rocks feeding on algae.
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In calm weather, then, they go free afield, but when the wind blows the carcinia take shelter against the rocks: the neritae themselves cling fast like limpets; and the same is the case with the haemorrhoid or aporrhaid and all others of the like kind.
The History of Animals
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Slipper limpet snails are infesting Puget Sound, off the coast of Washington State.
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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.
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Neal laughed, but he felt that to use Una's hair as a wrap for the red pulp of a crab's back or the soft, black belly of a limpet was a kind of profanation.
The Northern Iron
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Barnacles are crustaceans like crabs and shrimps but, because of their appearance, until the 19th century they were thought to be molluscs like limpets and whelks.
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Entering the water from the shore, the first animal we spot may well be a mollusc such as a limpet or dog-whelk.
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Impressions gleaned in childhood and rein forced in adolescence cling like limpets into adulthood despite valiant efforts to shake them off.
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For instance, a small snail called a limpet that fed on organisms that grew on the grass went extinct.
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Clinging to the formalities like a limpet I began to plan a faultless funeral.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Small businesses and lock-up garages cling to these spaces like limpets in a cave.
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The mechanism of the limpet effect involved sheltering of the limpet by the foliose fronds of this turf-forming alga.
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It is well known that most fucoids are prevented from establishing on exposed shores by limpet grazing.
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He said the landmines would have had to be detonated by smaller adhesive "limpet" mines, triggered by a timing device.
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In particular, they noted that modem patelloid limpets have segmented scars due to bundling of the large retractor muscle.
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Modern species thrive under intense herbivory from snails, chitons, and limpets, and this has been suggested as one reason for their success.
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In coastal areas, they eat mussels, barnacles, and limpets.
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Secondary gills are found in Ancylids, which are freshwater limpets adapted to life in fast-flowing streams.
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The dog-whelk's radula drills into other animals such as barnacles, while the limpet's is used to rasp algae off rock surfaces.
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Local people eat limpets and the gonads of shingle urchins uncooked but they eat nerites and periwinkles boiled.
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Brains of limpets and abalones are much simpler than brains of garden snails and slugs in histological differentiation.
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Many of the taxa that apparently diverged in the Paleozoic now are limpets and retain little information about the morphologies of their coiled ancestors.
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The former is headed by someone called Graham Dalton, who, it seems, is a time-serving apparatchik from the DoT, which, as we all know, is headed by that limpet-like nincompoop, Geoff BuffHoon, one of new Labour's 'Jack of All Trades & Master of None'.
Another Fine Mess
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All were available in plain or patinated brass or copper, and they included a variety of shells, such as Philippine, chiton, limpet, melon, triton, sea conch, and nautilus.
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The Prime Minister clung to his job like a limpet, despite calls for him to resign.
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She would clamp herself limpet, for seconds that seemed like hours.
LOST CHILDREN
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Brains of limpets and abalones are much simpler than brains of garden snails and slugs in histological differentiation.
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Some species of limpets have been shown to spend their entire lives within a few cm of their home scars, while others can move upwards of 1 m during a single tidal cycle.
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Small businesses and lock-up garages cling to these spaces like limpets in a cave.
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Imagine the limpet is the antelope of the undersea Serengeti, grazing majestically on algae," he intones, bouncing the shell along.
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Perhaps it would be a little shore crab that betrayed itself by scuffling down amongst the corallite or sea-weed, perhaps a little fierce-looking bristly fish, which shot under a ledge of the rock all amongst the limpets, acorn barnacles, or the thousands of yellow and brown and striped snaily fellows that crawled about in company with the periwinkles and pelican's feet.
Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
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All were available in plain or patinated brass or copper, and they included a variety of shells, such as Philippine, chiton, limpet, melon, triton, sea conch, and nautilus.
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And of course the guests and limpets also had to be depilated, washed, and have their hair dressed in an order dictated by protocol.
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While Pisaster has a very broad diet that includes barnacles, limpets, snails, and chitons, mussels are its preferred prey.
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It also highlighted the dangers that limpets, snails and anemones might suffer from overheated rock pools, and that enclosed lochs like Loch Maddy could suffocate through lack of oxygen.
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As we sailed along the rock, we observed that it is covered with echini, polypii, barnacles, limpets, and crusted with white bivalves less than oysters or cockles, yet containing a fish not unlike the latter in appearance, and the former in flavour.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
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The northern species Alaria esculenta (dabberlocks) and Tectura testudinalis (common tortoiseshell limpet) have shown small retractions in their southern distributional limits and declines in abundance at populations close to these range edges, but the rate of recession is not as fast as the rate of advancement in southern species.
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Think of molluscs and chances are it is shellfish such as limpets, whelks, scallops and mussels that spring to mind.
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In coastal areas, they eat mussels, barnacles, and limpets.
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The former is headed by someone called Graham Dalton, who, it seems, is a time-serving apparatchik from the DoT, which, as we all know, is headed by that limpet-like nincompoop, Geoff BuffHoon, one of new Labour's 'Jack of All Trades & Master of None'.
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The company were crammed into the kitchen like a limpet in its shell.
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Elizabeth stepped away gingerly, following the line left by the high tide, eyes zeroing in on the ridgy cups of limpet shells, the blue glint of mussels with their bright pearly insides.
FALSE MERMAID
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The crab and lobster haunt in the crevices; and limpets, mussels, and the white buckie abound.
Records of a Family of Engineers
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There is a gap of several tens of millions of years between the Middle Permian when the last Metoptomatids lived, and the Middle Triassic when the true limpets appear.
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Using canoes they penetrated the enemy's shipping lines in the approaches to Singapore and placed limpet mines destroying three vessels.
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Think of molluscs and chances are it is shellfish such as limpets, whelks, scallops and mussels that spring to mind.
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The off-center peak of this creature's shell allows the limpet to use it like a bulldozer to clear its territory of other animals.
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You can walk over rough slabs, cannon-ball boulders, limpets and bladderwrack to delight in the over-the-waves-views all the way to the white cliffs of Flamborough Head.
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The shelves in the Alexander living room are lined with conch and limpet shells, polished stones and cobalt blue glass.
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Limpets are likely to vie for status as one of the most abundant types of animals found at some vents.
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Limpets can alternate between suction adhesion and gluing in a predictable pattern that corresponds with their activity and the tides.
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Their sleek build enabled them to sail under large vessels so that frogmen could plant limpet mines on their hulls.
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Mussels and limpets are their primary food, but Black Oystercatchers prey on a wide range of shellfish and other creatures found along the rocky shore.
