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Answer for the clue "Fish that hangs around sharks ", 6 letters:
remora

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects [syn: suckerfish , sucking fish ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The remoras (pronounced or ), sometimes called suckerfish , are a family ( Echeneidae ) of ray-finned fish in the order Perciformes . They grow to long, and their distinctive first dorsal fins take the form of a modified oval, sucker-like organ with slat-like ...

Usage examples of remora.

Robb Brindle, who had demonstrated effective teamwork with Tasia, was assigned as her first officer, given full command of the Remora squadrons that would bear the brunt of space combat should the hydrogues appear.

As they fled toward the orbits of the innermost moons, she saw Robb Brindle and his last four Remoras struggling upward from the fringe of atmosphere, heading toward them.

She dispatched other Remoras to assist him, ushering Brindle and his ships into the Thunderhead landing bay.

Squadrons of combat Remoras crisscrossed the sky, dropping incendiary bombs primarily in unoccupied areas, though a few struck warehouses and governmental buildings.

With the DDS secured to her back like a remora on a shark, the Archerfish stood out even among military ships.

The warglobes launched blue lightning at the oncoming human forces, vaporizing a dozen of the fastest, cockiest Remoras.

They sat, Remora tucking the rich overrobe he wore around his legs, Maytera Mint as she might have in the cenoby, her delicate hands folded in her lap, and her head bowed.

The familiar music filtered through the intercom system as the tight knot of Secret Service men escorted their charge into the room, not unlike a cluster of nervous remoras convoying a shark.

Actually, I'd never really thought of myself as a true geek until I read this book -- okay, I was in denial -- and even then there were a few scary moments when I feared I might merely be a geek remora, one of Weiss's disdained cultivators of geek chic.

And the shark would cruise quietly on, its sickle mouth trailing morsels for the black and yellow pilot fish below his jaws and perhaps for the remora or two, the parasites that travel with the great host, that pick the shark's teeth when it is sleeping and the jaws are relaxed.

As it swept past he caught a glimpse of the inhuman, staring eye, the slatted gills, and the inevitable retinue of pilot fish and remora.