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Noun: river limpet
  1. Minute conical gastropod superficially resembling a limpet but living and feeding on freshwater plants
    - freshwater limpet, Ancylus fluviatilis

Derived forms: river limpets

Type of: gasteropod [archaic], gastropod, univalve

Part of: Ancylus, genus Ancylus