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Remora   Listen
noun
Remora  n.  
1.
Delay; obstacle; hindrance. (Obs.)
2.
(Zool.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish. Note: The anterior dorsal fin is converted into a large sucking disk, having two transverse rows of lamellae, situated on the top of the head. They adhere firmly to sharks and other large fishes and to vessels by this curious sucker, letting go at will. The pegador, or remora of sharks (Echeneis naucrates), and the swordfish remora (Remora brachyptera), are common American species.
3.
(Surg.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places.






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"Remora" Quotes from Famous Books



... effects of heat, light, and moisture, it is necessary to retrace our steps and walk round the sandspit to the transfigured and degenerate mouth of that once mangrove-creek known to the blacks by a name signifying that a boy once tethered in it a sucking fish (Remora). Obstructed by a bank, the creek is dead and dry save when the floods of the wet season co-operate with high tides and effect a breach, to be repaired on the cessation of the rains. No more than four years ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield



Words linked to "Remora" :   suckerfish, acanthopterygian, sucking fish, spiny-finned fish, Remilegia australis, family Echeneidae, Echeneis naucrates, Echeneididae



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