Crossword-Solution: LIMPET
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Limpet | n. | In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell. |
| Limpet | n. | Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides. |
| Limpet | n. | Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks. |
| Limpet | n. | A keyhole limpet. See Fissurella. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “LIMPET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Tight-clinging mollusk | 1 answer |
| Tenacious clinger | 1 answer |
| Rock clinging mollusc | 1 answer |
| Relative of a barnacle. | 1 answer |
| Mollusk with a low conical shell | 1 answer |
| Mollusk that clings tightly | 1 answer |
| Mollusk that clings | 1 answer |
| Cousin of a conch | 1 answer |
| Clinging shellfish. | 1 answer |
| Clinging mollusk | 1 answer |
| Adhesive mollusc | 1 answer |
| Aquatic snail | 1 answer |
| Clinging mollusc | 1 answer |
| marine gastropod | 3 answers |
| SHELL of univalve | 3 answers |
| Type of mine | 3 answers |
| Rock-clinging mollusk | 4 answers |
| type of mollusc | 5 answers |
| fish shell | 6 answers |
| CLINGY WRAP | 10 answers |
| univalve shell | 10 answers |
| shell fish | 10 answers |
| Conch cousin | 10 answers |
| conch | 15 answers |
| gastropod | 16 answers |
| Shell-fish. | 24 answers |
| mollusc | 26 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LIMPET (5)
But Harold clung limpet-like to the table edge, and his shrill protest continued to deafen humanity and to threaten even the serenities of Olympus.
The beast justified his reputation; but Cullingworth, although he was no horseman, stuck to him like a limpet.
Any time you are sure you have a chance at a moral man, square and honest, in control of his brain and body, if you are a wise woman, Ruth, stick to him as the limpet to the rock.” “You mean stick to the Harvester?” “If you are a wise woman!” “When was a woman ever wise?” “A few have been.
During these last four or six months you have been terribly indiscreet; but you have not been insincere, and that almost disarms me.” “I _have_ been insincere—if you will have the word—I mean I _have_ coquetted, and do _not_ love him!” But Grace clung to her position like a limpet.
What is that little brown thing whom you have just taken off the rock to which it adhered so stoutly by his sucking-foot? A limpet? Not at all: he is of quite a different family and structure; but, on the whole, a limpet-like shell would suit him well enough, so he had one given him: nevertheless, owing to certain anatomical peculiarities, he needed one aperture more than a limpet; so one, if you will examine, has been given him at the top of his shell.
Quotes with LIMPET (2)
A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any shutter left open to the zenith at night will record the wheeling of all the sky’s stars as a pattern of perfect, concentric circles. I seek a reduction, a shedding, a sloughing off. At the seashore you often see a shell, or fragment of a shell, that sharp sands and surf have thinned to a wisp. There is no way you can tell what kind of shell it had been, what creature it had hou…
She would seize every opportunity to dive into the bathroom, in a swirl of white towels, and once in there she was as hard to dislodge as a limpet from a rock.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1960–2021).