limpet

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Biologylimpetlim‧pet /ˈlɪmpɪt/ noun [countable] HBa small sea animal with a shell, which holds tightly onto the rock where it livesExamples from the Corpuslimpet• Nails stuck on Firelight like a limpet.• Flora clung to her, like a limpet.• The company were crammed into the kitchen like a limpet in its shell.• Impressions gleaned in childhood and rein forced in adolescence cling like limpets into adulthood despite valiant efforts to shake them off.• Small businesses and lock-up garages cling to these spaces like limpets in a cave.• Police found and defused a number of limpet mines.• The limpets are a diverse group, too.• Those limpets are sharp, you're right.Origin limpet (1000-1100) Medieval Latin lampreda “limpet, lamprey”

单词	limpet
释义	limpet From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Biologylimpetlim‧pet /ˈlɪmpɪt/ noun [countable] HBa small sea animal with a shell, which holds tightly onto the rock where it livesExamples from the Corpuslimpet• Nails stuck on Firelight like a limpet.• Flora clung to her, like a limpet.• The company were crammed into the kitchen like a limpet in its shell.• Impressions gleaned in childhood and rein forced in adolescence cling like limpets into adulthood despite valiant efforts to shake them off.• Small businesses and lock-up garages cling to these spaces like limpets in a cave.• Police found and defused a number of limpet mines.• The limpets are a diverse group, too.• Those limpets are sharp, you're right.Origin limpet (1000-1100) Medieval Latin lampreda “limpet, lamprey”
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