LIMPET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does limpet mean? 

• LIMPET (noun)
  The noun LIMPET has 2 senses:

1. mollusk with a low conical shell

2. any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas

  Familiarity information: LIMPET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIMPET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mollusk with a low conical shell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("limpet" is a kind of...):

shellfish (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("limpet" is a kind of...):

seasnail (any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "limpet"):

common limpet; Patella vulgata (marine limpet)

Diodora apertura; Fissurella apertura; keyhole limpet (marine limpet having a conical shell with an opening at the apex)

Holonyms ("limpet" is a member of...):

class Gasteropoda; class Gastropoda; Gasteropoda; Gastropoda (snails and slugs and their relatives)

 Context examples 

Keyhole limpet hemocyanin is being studied as a way to increase the immune response to cancer vaccines.

(Keyhole limpet hemocyanin, NCI Dictionary)

I continued three days feeding on oysters and limpets, to save my own provisions; and I fortunately found a brook of excellent water, which gave me great relief.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A test consisting of a lymphoma idiotype (Id)-specific protein conjugated to the immunogen keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH).

(Id Lymph Vaccine Test, NCI Thesaurus)

A trivalent cancer vaccine containing the ganglioside lactones GM2, GD2 and GD3 conjugated with the immunostimulant keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(GM2/GD2/GD3 Lactone-KLH Conjugate Trivalent Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A chimeric lymphoma vaccine generated by combining the recipient's Ig idiotype (Id) protein with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), an immune stimulant, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(KLH-Lymphoma Ig Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A peptide vaccine containing an epitope of human tumor-associated KSA antigen (Ep-CAM) conjugated with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(KSA-KLH Conjugate Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A peptide vaccine containing the human tumor-associated antigen epithelial mucin (MUC1 antigen) conjugated with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) and combined with the nonspecific immunoadjuvant QS21, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(MUC1-KLH Vaccine/QS21, NCI Thesaurus)

A peptide vaccine, containing human tumor-associated epithelial mucin (MUC1) conjugated with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(MUC1-KLH Conjugate Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A peptide vaccine containing human mucin 2 (MUC2) protein conjugated with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(MUC-2-KLH Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine consisting of GM2 ganglioside, a melanoma-specific antigen, conjugated with the immunostimulant keyhole limpet hemocyanin.

(GM2-KLH vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)