SUCKERFISH (suckerfishes)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: suckerfishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does suckerfish mean? 

• SUCKERFISH (noun)
  The noun SUCKERFISH 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: SUCKERFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUCKERFISH (noun)

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 ("suckerfish" 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 "suckerfish"):

Echeneis naucrates; sharksucker (remoras found attached to sharks)

Remilegia australis; whale sucker; whalesucker (large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins)

Holonyms ("suckerfish" 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)