REMILEGIA AUSTRALIS

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Meaning:

Large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins

Synonyms:

Remilegia australis; whale sucker; whalesucker

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Remilegia australis" 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 ("Remilegia australis" is a member of...):

genus Remilegia; Remilegia (a genus of Echeneididae)

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