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Meanings of remora in English
Marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects.
Synonyms
Examples for "suckerfish"
Examples for "suckerfish"
1
But our suckerfish would effect their capture with extraordinary certainty and precision.
2
These were suckerfish from the third family of the subbrachian Malacopterygia.
3
Thrown into the sea, the suckerfish immediately began to play their roles, going and fastening themselves onto the breastplates of the turtles.
1
And a sucking fish is liable at any moment to be useful.
2
It's never been known for a bullet to go through a sucking fish.
3
On this circle the old man could see the fish's eye and the two gray sucking fish that swain around him.
4
To escape his terrible flailings, I seized hold of my harpoon-pole sticking in him, and for a moment clung to that like a sucking fish.
5
There are no ghosts, this time, Tom," I added-ashe said nothing, but waited for me to go on-"andno need of our sucking fish...."
Usage of remora in English
1
Someone attacked this remora - I found it in the B-zone access way.
2
They had attached to him like a remora attaches to a great fish.
3
The bold steersman clung like a remora to the wreck of his boat.
4
A mid-shin-high, built-in stretchy Gore-Tex gaiter seals around your leg like a hungry remora.
5
Such a one is the tale of the remora.
6
Fish, abstention from eating; cunning of; kind of, called remora or echeneis; eating of, forbidden by Pythagoreans.
7
Gallagher heads for the bottom with the instructor holding his manifold yoke, riding him like a remora.
8
It's called a remora, and while it may be a parasite, it's actually got a lot going for it.
9
And you, Theresa, will be at the head of the assembly line, with me on your back like a remora.
10
I think they may be trying to keep themselves conscious by... A tentacle uncurled, pointed at the pathetic husk of my remora.
11
They then latch like a remora fish onto the one that's getting the most media attention, pretending as though they had been there all along.
12
The remoras I had observed in the Mediterranean were related to this species.
13
Go and alert Professor Remora and the others in our group, will you?
14
But the struggle was too much for the gallant Remora.
15
They tie a long, stout string to the Remora, and throw the fish overboard.
16
REMORA-TheRemora Has a Wonderful Flat Apparatus on its Head
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