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/sˈəkɪŋ fɪʃ/ Listen

Sucking fish

noun

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.

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"Sucking fish" Quotes from Famous Books

... two days I continued my course to the southward, upon my novel conveyances during which I had nothing to eat except a few small barnacles, and some parasitical vermin, peculiar to the animal, which I discovered under his fins. I also found a small remora, or sucking fish, near his tail, but when I put it to my mouth, it fixed itself so firmly on both my lips that I thought they were sealed for ever. No force could detach it, and there it hung like a padlock for many hours, to my great mortification and annoyance, but at last it died from ...

— The Pacha of Many Tales • Frederick Marryat

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Words linked to "Sucking fish" : family Echeneididae, whale sucker, Remilegia australis, Echeneis naucrates, spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian, family Echeneidae, whalesucker, sharksucker, Echeneididae