remora

The Sailor's Word-Book

The sucker-fish. It has a long oval plate on the top of the head, by which, having exhausted the air in it, it clings to a ship's bottom, to the sides of a shark, or to turtle.

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remora
rĕ-mŏra, ae, f., delay , hinderance , passive resistance (ante- and post-class.): quae Remoram fa...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
Remora
Rĕmŏra, ae, f., the name given to Rome by Remus : certabant urbem Romam Remoramne vocarent, Enn. ap....

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
Remora
·noun Delay; obstacle; hindrance. II. Remora ·noun An instrument formerly in use, intended to retai...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language