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All limpet synonyms

lim·pet
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noun limpet

  • abalone — Abalone is a shellfish that you can eat and that has a shiny substance called mother-of-pearl inside its shell.
  • snail — any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.
  • land mine — an explosive charge concealed just under the surface of the ground or of a roadway, designed to be detonated by pressure, proximity of a vehicle or person, etc.
  • mine — an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
  • clam — Clams are a kind of shellfish which can be eaten.
  • whelk — a pimple or pustule.
  • chiton — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a loose woollen tunic worn knee length by men and full length by women
  • cuttlefish — A cuttlefish is a sea animal that has a soft body and a hard shell inside.
  • invertebrate — Zoology. not vertebrate; without a backbone. of or relating to creatures without a backbone.
  • acoustic mine — a naval mine designed to be exploded by the vibration of the propeller of a passing ship or by the sound of water along the hull.
  • claymore mine — an antipersonnel mine designed to produce a direction-guided, fan-shaped pattern of fragments.
  • magnetic mine — an underwater mine set off by any disturbance of its magnetic field, as by the metal hull of a ship.
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