Search Result for "sucking_fish":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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, sucking fish]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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 Webster] Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under Bottle. Sucking fish (Zool.), the remora. See Remora. --Baird. Sucking pump, a suction pump. See under Suction. Sucking stomach (Zool.), the muscular first stomach of certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid food. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sucking fish n 1: 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, sucking fish]