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Webster 1913 Edition

(lĭm′pĕt)

Noun.

[Prob. through French fr. L.

lepas

-adis

, Gr.

λεπάς

-άδος

(Zool.)

In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell.

Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order

Docoglossa

, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides.

☞ The common European limpets of the genus

Patella

(esp.

Patella vulgata

) are extensively used as food. The common New England species is

Acmæa testudinalis

. Numerous species of limpets occur on the Pacific coast of America, some of them of large size.

Any species of

Siphonaria

, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks.

A keyhole limpet. See

Noun.

[L. lepas; Gr. from to peel or strip off bark.]

A univalve shell of the genus Patella, adhering to rocks.