A. S. Byatt

In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

English Novelist

Limpets can attach to other surfaces like boat hulls, not exclusively rocks.

Not just rocks

Limpets produce a powerful natural adhesive, which makes them an analogy for a strong grip.

Natural Adhesive

Limpets are often mentioned in discussions on marine life and eco-system health.

Eco-friendly focus

Used to describe someone who won't leave, signifying persistence or annoyance.

Persistence

A metaphorical usage implying clinginess, usually in informal situations.

Colloquial Context

When describing a person, it's understood as behavior and not a physical attribute.

Not Literal

 didn't quite not to make of the little baboon I don't know if it ended up eating it afterwards but if he killed its mother but a lion adopting a limpet I don't think so I don't know maybe one of the viewers out there seen something

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 the males have even learnt the art of eating limpets they either prize the shells off the rocks with their long canines or simply

Limpet

Not just rocks

Natural Adhesive

Eco-friendly focus

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