Usually means: Aquatic snail with conical shell.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. limpet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. limpet: Merriam-Webster
  3. limpet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. limpet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. limpet: Collins English Dictionary
  6. limpet: Vocabulary.com
  7. Limpet, limpet: Wordnik
  8. limpet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. limpet: Wiktionary
  10. limpet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. limpet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. limpet: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Limpet, limpet: Dictionary.com
  14. limpet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Limpet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Limpet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. limpet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. limpet: Rhymezone
  19. Limpet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. limpet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. limpet: FreeDictionary.org
  22. limpet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. limpet: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. limpet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LIMPET: Acronym Finder
  2. limpet: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. limpet: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. limpet: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape patelliform and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces.
noun:  (British) Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.
verb:  To gather limpets.

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