Remora

Quick meaning: Remora is a noun meaning (heraldry) A serpent.

Meaning

(heraldry) A serpent.

More Meanings

1. Any of various elongate fish from the family Echeneidae, the dorsal fin of which is in the form of a suction disc that can take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals.
2. (obsolete) A delay; a hindrance, an obstacle.
3. (obsolete, surgery) A surgical instrument, intended to retain parts in their places.

Example Sentences

The remora, lump-sucker, and others are provided with a muscular disk in the form of a sucker, by which they adhere to other fish or bodies moving through the water: [...]

LORD SCARSDALE. [...] On the dexter ſide, the figure of Prudence repreſented by a woman, habited argent, mantled azure, holding in her ſiniſter hand a javelin entwined with a remora proper; [...]

[...] I could not but notice, with some degree of curiosity, the gradual approaches of one of these remorae of society into the good graces of as genuine an English family as ever left the fat fields of Suffolk to pay for peeping at foreign novelty.

It was all genuine footage of various kinds of ray-fish: first a manta gliding just below the surface of a purple sea near the coast of Argentina. He glided there amongst the light beams that penetrated the water like daggers stabbing into it, while remorae skirted among his wing-fins.

Word Forms

• remorae
• remoras

Synonyms for remora

Depending on context, synonyms include echeneid, echeneidid, sharksucker, suckerfish, suckfish, suckstone.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include suckerfish, sucking fish, echeneid, suckfish, pegador, sharksucker.

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