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limpet
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: a marine gastropod mollusk (especially families Acmaeidae and Patellidae) that has a low conical shell broadly open beneath, browses over rocks or timbers in the littoral area, and clings very tightly when disturbed
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: one that clings tenaciously to someone or something
3
: an explosive device designed to cling magnetically to a metallic surface (as the hull of a ship)
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