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Definition: Suckerfish |
SuckerfishNoun1. 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. |
Synonyms: SuckerfishSynonyms: remora (n), sucking fish (n). (additional references) |
| 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 |
suckerfish | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "suckerfish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | sugefisk (shark sucker). (various references) | |
Dutch | schildvis (shark sucker), remora (shark sucker). (various references) | |
Finnish | remora (shark sucker). (various references) | |
French | sucet (shark sucker), rémora (shark sucker), calfat (shark sucker). (various references) | |
German | Kleiner Schiffshalter (shark sucker), Küstensauger (shark sucker). (various references) | |
Greek | κολησόψαρο (shark sucker), κολαούζος (shark sucker). (various references) | |
Italian | remora nera (shark sucker). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uckerfishsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pegador (sucker, tagger). (various references) | |
Spanish | rémora (shark sucker). (various references) | |
Swedish | sugfisk (sucker). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Remora remora, Remora remora (Linnaeus). (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-h-i-k-r-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: kirsches, shickers, shuckers, suckfish. | |
-3 letters: cruises, crushes, cuishes, cushier, ficuses, fishers, fissure, fussier, huskers, huskier, huskies, schriks, serfish, sferics, sherifs, shicker, shrieks, shrikes, shucker, suckers. | |
-4 letters: chiefs, chirks, crises, cruise, cruses, cuisse, curies, curses, cusser, fiches, fichus, fisher, fishes, frises, frisks, furies, fusser, hikers, hisser, husker, huskie, ickers, issuer, kefirs, kirsch, kisser, krises. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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