English noun: suckerfish | |||
1. | suckerfish (animal) marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects | ||
Synonyms | remora, sucking fish | ||
Broader (hypernym) | acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | Echeneis naucrates, Remilegia australis, sharksucker, whale sucker, whalesucker | ||
Member meronym | Echeneididae, family Echeneidae, family Echeneididae | ||