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noun
A remora or other fish of family Echeneidae, especially Echeneis naucrates.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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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: remora, sucking fish
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
Narrower terms: sharksucker, Echeneis naucrates, whale sucker, whalesucker, Remilegia australis
History
From sucker + fish.
Across languages
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