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    WHALE SUCKER

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphinsplay

    Synonyms:

    Remilegia australis; whale sucker; whalesucker

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("whale sucker" 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 ("whale sucker" is a member of...):

    genus Remilegia; Remilegia (a genus of Echeneididae)

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