remora
suomi-englanti sanakirjaremora englannista suomeksi
remora
Substantiivi
remora englanniksi
whale sucker, whalesucker
Echeneis
suckerfish, sucking fish
Any of various elongate fish from the family (taxfmt), the fin of which is in the form of a suction disc that can take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals. (defdate)
(synonyms)
(quote-book)|year=1832|page=86|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ylhAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA86|oclc=165759334|passage=The Remoræ (''Echeneisidæ'') form the last family of the soft-finned, subbrachian fishes. They are characterized at once by the top of their heads being flattened, and furnished with transverse series of cartilaginous plates, somewhat similar to the plates under the toes of the Gecko, by which these fish attach themselves to ships, rocks, and marine bodies.
(quote-book)|year=1839|page=42|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=p6JQAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA42|oclc=9122625|passage=The remora, lump-sucker, and others are provided with a muscular disk in the form of a sucker, by which they adhere to other fish or bodies moving through the water: ...
(quote-book)|year=1866|pages=99–100|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=vMkBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA100|oclc=39478291|passage=... I could not but notice, with some degree of curiosity, the gradual approaches of one of these ''remorae'' of society into the good graces of as genuine an English family as ever left the fat fields of Suffolk to pay for peeping at foreign novelty.
(quote-book)
A serpent.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for Sampson Woodfall|Henry Woodfall,(nb...)|date=23 July 1766|volume=60|page=217|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=P7pAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA217|oclc=642381797|passage=LORD SCARSDALE. ... On the dexter ſide, the figure of Prudence repreſented by a woman, habited argent, mantled azure, holding in her ſiniſter hand a javelin entwined with a remora proper; ...
(RQ:Bacon Learning)
(RQ:Prynne Soveraigne Power)
(RQ:Milton Divorce)
(quote-book) (reviser)|editors=Forbes (physician)|John Forbes; Alexander Tweedie; John Conolly|title=of Practical Medicine|The Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine: (...) In Four Volumes|volume=I (Abdomen–Emmenagogues)|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher=Lea and Blanchard|year=1848|section=paragraph 4|page=480|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=yUsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA480|column=2|oclc=3247499|passage=Increased tone of the muscular fibres of the middle coat of the intestines may not infrequently give rise to a remora in the passage of their contents, and the effect of many of that class of medicines called astringents appears to be owing to their tonic powers.
(quote-journal)
A surgical instrument, intended to retain parts in their places.
(RQ:Dunglison Dictionary) ... The name of two surgical instruments, intended to retain parts ''in situ''. The one was used, formerly, in castration, to prevent the intestines from protruding at the inguinal ring: the other, called ''Rem′ora Hilda′ni'', (French) ''Arrêt d'Hildan'', εχενηις, was employed to retain fractures and luxations reduced. It is not now used.|brackets=on
a (l); any of various elongate brown fish from the family (taxfmt), the fin of which is in the form of a suction disc that can take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals
remora (gloss)
(l) (gloss)