limpet in English

noun
1
a marine mollusk with a shallow conical shell and a broad muscular foot, noted for the way it clings tightly to rocks.
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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1. Flora clung to her, like a limpet.

2. Nails stuck on Firelight like a limpet.

3. The adhesion mechanism of barnacle , limpet, anemone, tube worm are described in this paper.

4. - Anterior portion of the same and opening on the right Limpet, with the overhanging Cephalic shoulder, so to speak, of hood removed.

5. 1941 – World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damage HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.

6. 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'.