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# limpet

«limpet» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small sea animal with a cone-shaped shell that clings…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a limpet, limpets)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A limpet is a small sea animal with a cone-shaped shell that clings very tightly to rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/limpet/#m1)

2) (informal) Someone who sticks to you like a limpet will not leave you alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/limpet/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Met in science on the seashore and rock pools; in everyday talk «cling like a limpet» means hold on very tightly.

### examples

- We found limpets on the rocks at low tide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/limpet/#x1)
- A limpet clings to the rock so the waves can't move it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/limpet/#x2)
- Limpets eat tiny plants called algae. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/limpet/#x3)
- My little brother clung to Mum like a limpet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/limpet/#x4)
- You can't pull a limpet off a rock easily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/limpet/#x5)
- Limpet teeth are one of the strongest natural materials. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/limpet/#x6)

### note

Countable noun: a limpet, limpets. A limpet is a snail-like animal (a mollusc), not a plant. Be gentle with rock-pool animals and put them back.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «limpet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/limpet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.