swordfish sucker

English

Noun

swordfish sucker (plural swordfish suckers)

A spearfish remora (Remora brachyptera), which attaches itself to a swordfish, billfish, or shark and feeds off it.

References

spearfish remora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
“swordfish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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