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Remora

noun
1.
Marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects.  Synonyms: suckerfish, sucking fish.





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"Remora" Quotes from Famous Books



... abound at this anchorage. I had never before seen the sucking-fish (Echeneis remora) so plentiful as at this place; they caused much annoyance to our fishermen by carrying off baits and hooks, and appeared always on the alert, darting out in a body of twenty or more from under the ship's ...
— Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During The Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade • John MacGillivray


Words linked to "Remora" :   family Echeneidae, sharksucker, acanthopterygian, whale sucker, whalesucker, Remilegia australis, spiny-finned fish, Echeneis naucrates, family Echeneididae, Echeneididae


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