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Definition of Sucking fish
1. Noun. Marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects.
Generic synonyms: Acanthopterygian, Spiny-finned Fish
Group relationships: Echeneididae, Family Echeneidae, Family Echeneididae
Specialized synonyms: Echeneis Naucrates, Sharksucker, Remilegia Australis, Whale Sucker, Whalesucker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sucking Fish
Literary usage of Sucking fish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1862)
"sucking fish, the popular name of the remora, a spiny-rayed fish of the genus
... The common sucking fish of the Mediterranean, eo well known to the ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"A sucker; а discoidal sucking-organ, as an acetabulum: applied to any flat or
concave expansive surface which functions as a sucker. SUCking-fish ..."
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