Remora

//ɹɪˈmɔːɹə//

Synonyms for "remora" (48 found)

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Translations

29 translations across 17 languages.

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Asturian

3 entries
  • llamprea noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)
  • rémola noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)
  • rémora noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • змия noun ((heraldry) serpent)
  • прилепало noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)

Catalan

2 entries
  • rèmora noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)
  • rèmora noun (delay; hindrance, obstacle — see also delay, hindrance)

Cebuano

2 entries
  • kumi noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)
  • remora noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 鮣 /䲟 noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)

Finnish

1 entries
  • remora noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)

German

1 entries
  • Schiffshalter noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)

Ido

1 entries
  • remoro noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)

Italian

1 entries
  • remora noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)

Japanese

1 entries
  • コバンザメ noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)

Libyan Arabic

1 entries
  • قلفاط noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)

Polish

4 entries
  • podnawka noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)
  • remora noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)
  • ssacz noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)
  • tarczygłów noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • rémora noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)
  • rêmora noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)

Russian

1 entries
  • прилипа́ла noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)

Spanish

2 entries
  • rémora noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)
  • rémora noun (delay; hindrance, obstacle — see also delay, hindrance)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • parikit-bangka noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)

Telugu

1 entries
  • మట్ట noun (elongate fish from the family Echeneidae)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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The Remoræ (Echeneisidæ) form the last family of the soft-finned, subbrachian fishes. They are characterized at once by the top of their heads being flattened, and furnished with transverse series of cartilaginous plates, somewhat similar to the plates under the toes of the Gecko, by which these fish attach themselves to ships, rocks, and marine bodies.

Source: wiktionary

The remora, lump-sucker, and others are provided with a muscular disk in the form of a sucker, by which they adhere to other fish or bodies moving through the water: [...]

Source: wiktionary

[...] I could not but notice, with some degree of curiosity, the gradual approaches of one of these remorae of society into the good graces of as genuine an English family as ever left the fat fields of Suffolk to pay for peeping at foreign novelty.

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It was all genuine footage of various kinds of ray-fish: first a manta gliding just below the surface of a purple sea near the coast of Argentina. He glided there amongst the light beams that penetrated the water like daggers stabbing into it, while remorae skirted among his wing-fins.

Source: wiktionary

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