sucking fish — noun marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects • Syn: ↑remora, ↑suckerfish • Hypernyms: ↑spiny finned fish, ↑acanthopterygian • Hyponyms: ↑sharksucker, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
sucking fish — dryžoji prielipa statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Echeneis naucrates angl. Indian remora pega; large remora; pegapega; pilot shark; shark remora; shark sucker; slender remora; slender sucker fish;… … Žuvų pavadinimų žodynas
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Sucking — Suck ing, a. Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. [1913 Webster] I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. Thackeray. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Sucking bottle — Sucking Suck ing, a. Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. [1913 Webster] I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. Thackeray. [1913 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Sucking pump — Sucking Suck ing, a. Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. [1913 Webster] I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. Thackeray. [1913 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Sucking stomach — Sucking Suck ing, a. Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. [1913 Webster] I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. Thackeray. [1913 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sucking — adj. 1 (of a child, animal, etc.) not yet weaned. 2 Zool. unfledged (sucking dove). Phrases and idioms: sucking disc an organ used for adhering to a surface. sucking fish = REMORA … Useful english dictionary
Fish — /fish/, n. Hamilton, 1808 93, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1869 77. * * * I Any of more than 24,000 species of cold blooded vertebrates found worldwide in fresh and salt water. Living species range from the primitive lampreys and hagfishes… … Universalium
