Definitions
marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin remora (“delay, hindrance, passive resistance”), from the belief that the fish would attach themselves to ships and slow them down, from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + mora (“delay”) (from Proto-Indo-European *mere (“to delay, hinder”), from *(s)mer- (“to fall into thinking, remember; to care for”)).
Used in a sentence
“The remora, lump-sucker, and others are provided with a muscular disk in the form of a sucker, by which they adhere to other fish or bodies moving through the water: [...]”
“LORD SCARSDALE. [...] On the dexter ſide, the figure of Prudence repreſented by a woman, habited argent, mantled azure, holding in her ſiniſter hand a javelin entwined with a remora proper; [...]”
“What mighty and inviſible Remora is this in Matrimony able to demurre, and to contemne all the divorſive engines in heaven or earth.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Suckerfish”6 letters
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