- A small dish, pan, or vase. - The kneepan; the cap of the knee. - A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of
limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common
European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food. - A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat,
and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.
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