limpet

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a small shellfish that sticks very tightly to rocks: The Prime Minister clung to his job like a limpet, despite calls for him to resign.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

limpetEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus limpetEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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