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n. 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.

n. Any of various elongate brown fish from the family Echeneidae whose dorsal fin is in the form of a suction disc that can take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals.

n. Delay; obstacle; hindrance.

n. Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish.

n. An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places.

n. Delay; obstacle; hindrance.

n. The sucking-fish, Echeneis remora, or any fish of the family Echeneididæ, having on the top of the head a flattened oval adhesive surface by means of which it can attach itself firmly to various objects, as another fish, a ship's bottom, etc., but whether for protection or conveyance, or both, has not been satisfactorily ascertained. It was formerly believed to have the power of delaying or stopping ships. See cuts under Echeneis and Rhombochirus.

n. A genus of such fishes, based on the species above-named.

n. In medicine, a stoppage or stagnation, as of the blood.

n. In surgery, an instrument to retain parts in place: not now in use.

n. In heraldry, a serpent: rare, confined to certain modern blazons.

n. marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects

"Some were truly incredible — from the impossibly tiny-mouthed filefish (No. 32), to the blue parrotfish (No. 35) that looked like wet sapphire, to the 2-foot-long remora (No. 34) that Adler insisted could adhere to my belly and hang there (it did, and the sensation was like having a vacuum-cleaner hose with a thousand tiny needles at its end stuck to your skin)."

acanthopterygian    spiny-finned fish   

echeneis naucrates    sharksucker    remilegia australis    whale sucker    whalesucker   

delay    obstacle    hindrance    suckerfish   

ghoti    cray    kimchee    jpop    stinker    pooping    freshie    firm-fleshed    Dora    chad