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REMORA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does remora mean?
• REMORA (noun)
The noun REMORA has 1 sense:
1. marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects
Familiarity information: REMORA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
remora; suckerfish; sucking fish
Hypernyms ("remora" is a kind of...):
acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remora"):
Echeneis naucrates; sharksucker (remoras found attached to sharks)
Remilegia australis; whale sucker; whalesucker (large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins)
Holonyms ("remora" is a member of...):
Echeneididae; family Echeneidae; family Echeneididae (fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships)
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