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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
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)
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