n. 1.【动物;动物学】帽贝。 2.牢牢抱住某物〔官职等〕不舍的人;恋栈者。 3.水下爆破弹 ( = limpet mine). stick like a limpet 纠缠不休。
any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas
mollusk with a low conical shell
Limpet is a common name for a number of different groups of sea snails and freshwater snails (aquatic gastropod mollusks). The common name is applied to those snails that have a simple shell which is broadly conical in shape, and either is not spirally coiled, or appears not to be coiled in the adult snail.
例句与用法
1.
Better not stick here all night like a limpet 最好不要像帽贝似的整个晚上粘在这儿。
2.
These limpets taste like rubber 这帽贝吃起来像橡胶
3.
These days it covers such obscure life - forms as the stock island tree snail , the banbury springs limpet and the triple - ribbed milk - vetch , along with 1 , 348 other animals and plants 如今它却包括了许多偏癖少见的生命形式,诸如斯达克岛树蜗牛、班伯里温泉帽贝,三肋奶巢菜以及其他1348种动植物。