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noun

Remora n.

Delay; obstacle; hindrance. (Obs.)

(Zool.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish. Note: The anterior dorsal fin is converted into a large sucking disk, having two transverse rows of lamellae, situated on the top of the head. They adhere firmly to sharks and other large fishes and to vessels by this curious sucker, letting go at will. The pegador, or remora of sharks (Echeneis naucrates), and the swordfish remora (Remora brachyptera), are common American species.

(Surg.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places.

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"Remora" Quotes from Famous Books

... other, "If they are walking on the sea, why should we not do as they do?" and they also arose and hastened after the others. Thomas tried to follow, but his faith tottered; he sank in the sea more than once, and rose again, but the third time he also walked on the sea. The bold steersman clung like a remora to the wreck of his boat. The miser had had faith, and had risen to go, but he tried to take his gold with him, and it was his gold that dragged him down to the bottom. The learned man had scoffed at the charlatan and at the fools who listened to ...

— Christ in Flanders • Honore de Balzac

... the wind into her bosome right, And th'heavens looked lovely all the while, That she did seeme to daunce, as in delight, And at her owne felicitie did smile. All sodainely there clove unto her keele A little fish that men call Remora, Which stopt her course, and held her by the heele, That winde nor tide could move her thence away. Straunge thing me seemeth, that so small a thing Should able be so great ...

— The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 • Edmund Spenser

... turns clear over. You cannot mistake it. Nor can you mistake a swordfish when he breaks, even though you only see the splash. He makes two great sheets of water rise and fall. Probably all these fish leap to shake off the remoras. A remora is a parasite, a queer little fish, pale in color, because he probably lives inside the gills of the fish he preys upon, with the suckers on top of his head, arranged in a shield, ribbed like a washboard. This little fish is as mysterious as any creature of the sea. He is as swift as lightning. ...

— Tales of Fishes • Zane Grey

Words linked to "Remora" : sharksucker, acanthopterygian, family Echeneidae, suckerfish, sucking fish, Echeneis naucrates, Echeneididae, family Echeneididae, spiny-finned fish