remora

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  1. noun Any of several marine fishes of the family Echeneidae, having on the head a sucking disk with which they attach themselves to sharks, whales, sea turtles, or the hulls of ships. Also called shark sucker, suckerfish, suckfish.

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  • And come the dawn, I clung to unconsciousness like a remora to its favorite shark. —  FSF - March2006
  • Like any good remora, Eloise is along for the ride Eloise looks at the papers in her hand: Villa Nova's resort proposal and Eco/Logic's prospectus describing the parameters and scope of the Environmental Impact Report. —  EBSCOhost
  • She grabbed his hand and bit into his forearm, attaching herself to him like a remora to a shark. —  Christopher Moore - You Suck
  • They ought to get a rope and hang ... remora: well Dang Me! —  Japundit - Published news
  • Seriously go for it if ... remora: great intergalactic stuff len!! —  Japundit - Published news
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  1. Latin, delay (from the belief that they could slow ships down), from remorārī, to delay : re-, re- + morārī, to delay (from mora, delay).

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  1. =F. rémora, rémore =Spanish rémora =Portuguese Italian remora, from Latin remora, a delay, hindrance, also the fish echeneis, the sucking-fish (cf. remorari, stay, delay), from re-, back, + mora, delay, the fish echeneis (see Echeneis).
 

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