Limpet: alternatives and connections

A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinaril…

A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.

marine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell

A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiidae; -- so called from its hornlike form.

One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.

Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a c…

A Linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. See Cone, n., 4.

A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.

A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.

A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructi…

A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form.

A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.

A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat shell. See Boat shell.

Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet s…

either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell

A division of vermiform gastropod mollusks, without a shell, belonging to the Isopleura.