Clingfish

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small marine fish of the family Gobiesocidae which has a sucking disc on its underside that it uses to cling to rocks and seaweed.
  2. 2
    very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc. wordnet

Etymology

From cling + fish.

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