limpinn.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
= limpet n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > limpet > member of superfamily Patellacea
limpetc1050
limpin1585
centre fish1668
pap shell1678
flidder1769
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 70 Tellina, mytulus, a limpin.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 265 The Limpins, Muskles, and Scallops.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Berdin, the shell-fish called a Lympyne, or a Lempet.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 120 There are..the largest Limpins that perhaps are anywhere to be met with.
1891 Owen's Pembrokeshire 126 (note) Limpin is still the local name for Limpet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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