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# remora

«remora» in Mova's school dictionary: **a fish with a flat sucker on top of its head that it uses…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a remora, remoras)

### meaning for a pupil

A remora is a fish with a flat sucker on top of its head that it uses to stick to sharks, whales, turtles and boats and ride along with them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons it is an example of animals living together (symbiosis, commensalism): the remora gets a free ride and scraps of food. Phrases: a remora on a shark, suckerfish.

### examples

- A remora clung to the shark's belly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/#x1)
- Remoras eat scraps left by the shark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/#x2)
- The remora has a sucker on its head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/#x3)
- Divers saw remoras stuck to a turtle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/#x4)
- A remora is also called a suckerfish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/#x5)
- The shark does not seem to mind the remora. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/#x6)

### note

Countable: remoras. Say REM-or-uh. Myth: sailors once believed remoras could stop ships; they cannot.

### In the corpora

- [Remoras stick to sharks and rays with a sucker on their heads, and that sucker is really a changed fin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «remora» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.