remora (n)
suckerfish (n)
sucking fish (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 05
def marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects
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Hypernym spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
Member holonym Echeneididae, family Echeneididae, family Echeneidae
Hyponym sharksucker, Echeneis naucrates; whale sucker, whalesucker, Remilegia australis
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Hyponym spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
Member meronym Echeneididae, family Echeneididae, family Echeneidae
Hypernym sharksucker, Echeneis naucrates; whale sucker, whalesucker, Remilegia australis

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