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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Echeneididae — thesuckerfishes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For here the prince learned that there is a very rare beast, called a Remora, which is at least as cold as the Firedrake is hot!
Prince Prigio Andrew Lang 1878
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For here the prince learned that there is a very rare beast called a Remora, which is at least as cold as the Firedrake is hot!
Prince Prigio From "His Own Fairy Book" Andrew Lang 1878
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On April 26, the Ile de Sein arrived to begin search and retrieval work with the Remora, which is produced by Phoenix International Holdings Inc. of Largo, Maryland.
France Set to Open Black Boxes in Crash Daniel Michaels 2011
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They grunted continually as they walked, peering at everything with haughty eyes in faces that recalled Remora's.
Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996
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Another professor of magic taught that the feathers of an eagle, mixed with those of other birds, would consume them, and that a small fish called Remora could stop the progress of a ship at sea.
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Meantime, like carpenters 'augers, and the sea-worm called Remora, the guns of the Serapis were drilling away at the same doomed hull.
Israel Potter Herman Melville 1855
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( "'Remora': any of several marine fishes of the family Echeneidae, having on the head a sucking disk with which they attach themselves to sharks; see volatility injected into other activist portfolios due to the remora's often swashbuckling behavior.")
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009
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( "'Remora': any of several marine fishes of the family Echeneidae, having on the head a sucking disk with which they attach themselves to sharks; see volatility injected into other activist portfolios due to the remora's often swashbuckling behavior.")
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On the Remora's first dive, on April 27, it located the structure in which the so-called black boxes had originally been located, but the recorders were missing.
Investigators Find Air France Jet's Black Box Daniel Michaels 2011
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From the Ile de Sein, specialists deployed an underwater robot, the Remora 6000, produced by Phoenix International Holdings of Largo, Md.
Investigators Find Air France Jet's Black Box Daniel Michaels 2011
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