Crossword-Solution: LIMPETS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LIMPETS | anagram | LIMPEST |
We have 11 clues for the answer “LIMPETS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Clinging gastropods. | 1 answer |
| Clinging mollusks | 1 answer |
| Clingy mollusks | 1 answer |
| Conch cousins | 1 answer |
| Marine mollusks that cling to rocks | 1 answer |
| Rock-clinging marine gastropods | 1 answer |
| LAKE shore fauna | 2 answers |
| Conch cousin | 10 answers |
| CLINGY WRAP | 10 answers |
| conch | 15 answers |
| Shell-fish. | 24 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CMEZEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with LIMPETS (5)
Those who had been sick picked dulse (_Fucus palmatus_), which they ate with much seeming appetite; others were more intent upon collecting limpets for bait, to enjoy the amusement of fishing when they returned on board of the vessel.
Here was no living presence, save for the limpets on the rocks, for some old, gray, rain-beaten ram that I might rouse out of a ferny den betwixt two boulders, or for the haunting and the piping of the gulls.
Undoubtedly there are many apparently insignificant features, which can nevertheless be shown to be adaptations--for instance, the thickness of the basin-shaped shell of the limpets that live among the breakers on the shore.
The horrors of corruption, in the Third Chimera, may be left unquoted, Aytoun parodies-- "The chalk, the chalk, the cheese, the cheese, the cheeses, And straightway dropped he down upon his kneeses." Julio comes back to reason, hates the dreadful bride, and feeds on limpets, "by the mass, he feasteth well!" There was a holy hermit on the isle, "I ween like other hermits, so was he." He is Agathe's father, and he has retired to an eligible island where he may repent his cruelty to his daughter.
Lytton Bulwer had me in his mind when he introduced in one of his novels a Professor Long, who had written two huge volumes on limpets.
Quotes with LIMPETS (3)
Ocean Acidification is sometimes referred to as Global Warming's Equally Evil Twin. The irony is intentional and fair enough as far as it goes... No single mechanism explains all the mass extinctions in the record and yet changes in ocean chemistry seem to be a pretty good predictor. Ocean Acidification played a role in at least 2 of the Big Five Extinctions: the End-Permian and the End-Triassic. And quite possibly it was a major factor in a third, the End-Cretaceous. ... Why…
Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.
In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1961–2019).