sucker-fish

The latter, of course, is spared the exertion of self-propulsion through the water, and the host may not be seriously inconvenienced by the slight additional tax on its energy; but when, as sometimes, the blacks use the sucker-fish as a means for the capture of its erstwhile host, the end is tragedy.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

And what advantage is it to the shark and turtle and dugong to have the company of sucker-fish?

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

It has been uninventive, dilatory, and without initiative; it has been wasteful and evasive; but it has not been wanting in a certain eloquence and dignity, it has been wary and shrewd, and it has held on to office with the concentrated skill and determination of a sucker-fish.

What is Coming? 1906

I did not see what it was, and it felt as if some great sucker-fish, with a cold woolly mouth, was trying to swallow my foot.

A Jolly Fellowship Frank Richard Stockton 1868

It was a sucker play orchestrated by sucker-fish, by lampreys, by vampires.

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