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Definition: Remora |
RemoraNoun1. Marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "remora" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
Synonyms: RemoraSynonyms: suckerfish (n), sucking fish (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
They are commonly found attached to sharks, manta rays, whales and turtles, using them as transport and protection and also obtaining food from fragments dropped by the host. Smaller remoras also fasten onto fishes like tuna and swordfish, and some small remoras travel in the mouths or gills of large manta rays, ocean sunfish, swordfish, and sailfish. It is thought that they may be helping themselves to the host’s food, but it has also been suggested that they eat parasites in these fish. Certain types of remoras are found almost exclusively on specific animals (e.g. a species called the "whalesucker" attaches only to whales; a shark sucker attaches only to sharks). There are 8-10 species of remora.
The relationship between remoras their host is one of commensalism. The host they attach to for transport gains nothing from the relationship, but it also loses little aside from some extra drag while swimming.
Remoras are primarily a tropical open-ocean dweller, occasionally found in temperate waters in summer because they are attached to large fish that have wandered into cooler areas. In the mid-Atlantic, spawning usually takes place in June and July; in the Mediterranean, in August and September. The sucker begins to show when the young fish are about 0.75 inches long, and young remora are able to hitch a ride when they are about 1.5 inches long.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Remora."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Coherence | Tenacity, toughness; stickiness; inseparability, inseparableness; bur, remora. |
Cling like ivy, cling like a bur; adhere like a remora, adhere like Dejanira's shirt. | |
Hindrance | Encumbrance, incumbrance; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea; remora. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Remora |
| English words defined with "remora": Pegador ♦ Remilegia australis ♦ sand shark, Stayship, Stopship, sucking fish, Swordfish sucker ♦ whalesucker. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Plate 177. The Spear-Fish Remora. Rhombochirus osteochir (Cuv.), Gill. The Sword-Fish Remora. Remoropsis Brachyptera, Lowe.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
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Expressions using "remora": adhere like a remora ♦ remora brachyptera. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
remora | 43 |
aqua c remora | 7 |
aquac remora | 6 |
remora pro | 6 |
fish remora | 4 |
remora shark | 4 |
remora skimmer | 4 |
aqua c pro remora | 3 |
remora protein skimmer | 2 |
la remora | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "remora"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Bulgarian | пречка (bit, block, blockage, check, clog, cross, difficulty, disadvantage, disqualification, embarrassment, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, kibosh, let, liability, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, rub, setback, spoke, stay, stop, stumbling-stone, traverse). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 小判鮫 (shark sucker, sucking fish). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | "ば"ざめ (shark sucker, sucking fish). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | emoraray | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | re-. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "remora": remoras. (additional references) | |
Words containing "remora": premoral. (additional references) | |
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"Remora" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bemporad, Brymore, Demorgan, Dromora, Ermera, Gemara, Grumore, Kekoura, memora, Penmorfa, Rajouri, Rammoham, Rammore, Razmara, reboar, rebore, remo, remona, remore, Remuera, remura, renori, Renory, repore, rimor, risoria, Rukoro, rumori, tremored, Uemera. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: roamer. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: armer, armor, morae, ormer, rearm. | |
-2 letters: aero, mare, mora, more, omer, orra, rare, ream, rear, roam, roar. | |
-3 letters: are, arm, ear, era, err, mae, mar, moa, mor, oar, ora, ore, ram, rem, roe, rom. | |
-4 letters: ae, am, ar, em, er, ma, me, mo, oe, om, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: armoire, armored, armorer, earworm, forearm, overarm, remoras, roamers. | |
+2 letters: aeriform, aerogram, airdrome, armigero, armoires, armorers, armories, armoured, armourer, carromed, clamorer, comparer, cremator, earworms, forearms, marrowed, mortared, overcram, overwarm, premolar, premoral, ransomer, rearmost, reformat, renogram, romancer, rosemary, wareroom. | |
+3 letters: aerodrome, aerograms, aerometer, aeronomer, airdromes, arboretum, armigeros, armorless, armourers, armouries, barometer, barometry, biomarker, broodmare, broomrape, camcorder, clamorers, comparers, comradery, cornerman, cremators, crematory, deprogram, dromedary, earthworm, embraceor, forearmed, formatter, framework, heartworm, imperator, macerator, macromere, madrepore, marmoreal, marmorean, moderator, moralizer, mortgager, nonfarmer, numerator, overcrams, overwarms, preformat, premolars, programed, programer, programme, ramrodded, ransomers, rearmouse, reformate, reformats, renograms, reprogram, rigmarole, romancers, rotameter, sarcomere, tambourer, temporary, terraform, unarmored, warerooms, warmonger. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 6D 6F 72 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -- --- .-. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101101 01101111 01110010 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e m o r a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006D 006F 0072 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527179818467 |
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