limpet 的定义
- any of various marine gastropods with a low conical shell open beneath, often browsing on rocks at the shoreline and adhering when disturbed.
limpet 近义词
等同于 land mine
等同于 mollusk
更多limpet例句
- Four of those attacks used the same kind of magnetic limpet bomb, affixed to the vehicles of the targets.
- Shell, rather limpet-like, with a hooked apex (whence its generic name), adheres to stones or piles in running water.
- When the tide is out, the Limpet clings to the rock, its soft body tucked safely away in the shell.
- Then the Limpet's shell may be seen to tilt up, and a foot, and a head with feelers and eyes, come out.
- In time this resting-place becomes hollowed out, and the Limpet's shell fits into the groove thus made.
- You will know, if you have tried to force a Limpet from its hold on the rock, how very tightly it clings.