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suckerfish

suckerfish noun: a remora or other fish of family Echeneidae, especially Echeneis naucrates.

suckerfish: a remora or other fish of family Echeneidae, especially Echeneis naucrates
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Noun

suckerfish (plural suckerfishes or suckerfish)

  1. A remora or other fish of family Echeneidae, especially Echeneis naucrates.

suckerfish meaning in Tamil and Telugu

suckerfish in Tamil

உரிக்குட்டி

suckerfish in Telugu

the suckerfish or remora or genus Echeneis
మట్ట maṭṭa

Forms of suckerfish

pluralsuckerfishes
pluralsuckerfish

Origin of suckerfish

From sucker + fish.

Words formed from suckerfish

Questions about suckerfish

What does suckerfish mean?
Suckerfish means a remora or other fish of family Echeneidae, especially Echeneis naucrates.
What is suckerfish in Tamil?
Suckerfish in Tamil is உரிக்குட்டி. See Suckerfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is suckerfish?
Suckerfish is a noun.
What is the plural of suckerfish?
The plural of suckerfish is suckerfishes.

Words near suckerfish in the dictionary

  1. sucker-punched
  2. sucker-punches
  3. Suckerberg
  4. suckerdom
  5. suckered
  6. suckerfish
  7. suckerfishes
  8. suckerhood
  9. suckering
  10. suckerino
  11. suckerinos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: suckerfish (page history and authors); suckerfish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); మట్ట (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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