remora

«remora» in Mova's school dictionary: a fish with a flat sucker on top of its head that it uses… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a remora, remoras)

meaning for a pupil

A remora is a fish with a flat sucker on top of its head that it uses to stick to sharks, whales, turtles and boats and ride along with them. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons it is an example of animals living together (symbiosis, commensalism): the remora gets a free ride and scraps of food. Phrases: a remora on a shark, suckerfish.

examples

• A remora clung to the shark's belly. tree →
• Remoras eat scraps left by the shark. tree →
• The remora has a sucker on its head. tree →
• Divers saw remoras stuck to a turtle. tree →
• A remora is also called a suckerfish. tree →
• The shark does not seem to mind the remora. tree →

note

Countable: remoras. Say REM-or-uh. Myth: sailors once believed remoras could stop ships; they cannot.

In the corpora

• Remoras stick to sharks and rays with a sucker on their heads, and that sucker is really a changed fin.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «remora» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.