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REMILEGIA AUSTRALIS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins
Synonyms:
Remilegia australis; whale sucker; whalesucker
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Remilegia australis" is a kind of...):
remora; suckerfish; sucking fish (marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects)
Holonyms ("Remilegia australis" is a member of...):
genus Remilegia; Remilegia (a genus of Echeneididae)