Limpet

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A keyhole limpet. ·see Fissurella.

II. Limpet ·noun In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell.

III. Limpet ·noun Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks.

IV. Limpet ·noun Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides.

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