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SUCKERFISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: suckerfishes   

 I. (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

Synonyms:

remora; suckerfish; sucking fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)

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