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WHALE SUCKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does whale sucker mean?
• WHALE SUCKER (noun)
The noun WHALE SUCKER has 1 sense:
1. large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins
Familiarity information: WHALE SUCKER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Remilegia australis; whale sucker; whalesucker
Hypernyms ("whale sucker" is a kind of...):
remora; suckerfish; sucking fish (marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects)
Holonyms ("whale sucker" is a member of...):
genus Remilegia; Remilegia (a genus of Echeneididae)
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