Crossword clues for remora
remora
- Ride-hitching fish
- Suckerfish that attaches itself to sharks
- Sucker fish
- Shark parasite
- Sea sucker
- Saltwater sucker
- Rider on a shark
- Parasite fish
- Ocean sucker
- Hitchhiking fish
- Hitchhiker on a shark
- Fish with sucky habits
- Fish that may attach to a shark
- Fish that hangs around sharks
- Fish that gets a free ride on a shark or ship
- Fish that attaches itself to whales, sharks, turtles, ships, etc
- Fish often attached to a shark
- Fish also called a sharksucker
- Whalesucker
- Fish that hitches rides
- Fish that attaches itself to a host
- Fish that can attach itself to a boat
- Marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects
- Freeloading fish
- Shark's hitchhiker
- Marine hitchhiker
- Marine hanger-on
- Shark's hanger-on
- Shark passenger
- Shark's fellow traveler
- Obstacle on marshland where ship departs
- Clinging fish
- Shark hanger-on
- Shark attachment
- Sucking fish
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remora \Rem"o*ra\ (r?m"?*r?), n. [L.: cf. F. r['e]mora.]
Delay; obstacle; hindrance. [Obs.]
--Milton.-
(Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish.
Note: The anterior dorsal fin is converted into a large sucking disk, having two transverse rows of lamell[ae], situated on the top of the head. They adhere firmly to sharks and other large fishes and to vessels by this curious sucker, letting go at will. The pegador, or remora of sharks ( Echeneis naucrates), and the swordfish remora ( Remora brachyptera), are common American species.
(Surg.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places.
--Dunglison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Latin remora "sucking fish," literally "delay, hindrance," from re- "back" (see re-) + mora "delay" (see moratorium); so called because the fish were believed by the ancients to retard a vessel to which they attached themselves. Hence, in 17c.-18c., "an obstacle, an impediment" (the first sense of the word in Johnson's dictionary). In Greek, ekheneis, from ekhein "to hold" + naus (dative nei) "ship." Pliny writes that Antony's galley was delayed by one at Actium. Sometimes called in English stayship or stopship.
Wiktionary
n. 1 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. 2 (context obsolete English) delay; obstacle; hindrance 3 An old surgical instrument, intended to retain parts in their places.
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
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 structures that open and close to create suction and take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals. By sliding backward, the remora can increase the suction, or it can release itself by swimming forward. Remoras sometimes attach to small boats. They swim well on their own, with a sinuous, or curved, motion.
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.