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noun
Any of various elongate fish from the family Echeneidae, the dorsal fin of which is in the form of a suction disc that can take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: echeneid, echeneidid, sharksucker, suckerfish, suckfish, suckstone
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A serpent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A delay; a hindrance, an obstacle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A surgical instrument, intended to retain parts in their places.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: medicine, sciences, surgery
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noun
marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: suckerfish, sucking fish
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
Narrower terms: sharksucker, Echeneis naucrates, whale sucker, whalesucker, Remilegia australis
History
Borrowed from Latin remora (“delay, hindrance, passive resistance”), from the belief that the fish would attach themselves to ships and slow them down, from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + mora (“delay”) (from Proto-Indo-European *mere (“to delay, hinder”), from *(s)mer- (“to fall into thinking, remember; to care for”)).
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