common limpet

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   marine limpet

   SynonymsPatella vulgata

   Broaderlimpet

   Part ofPatella

Questions about common limpet

What does common limpet mean?

common limpet means "marine limpet".

What is another word for common limpet?

Close synonyms include Patella vulgata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common limpet a common word?

common limpet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.