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remora

re·mora

UK/ɹɪˈmɔːɹə/ US/ˈɹɛməɹə/ uncommon obsolete

noun

1.

marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects

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Borrowed from Latin remora (“delay, hindrance, passive resistance”), from the belief that the fish would attach themselves to ships and slow them down, from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + mora (“delay”) (from Proto-Indo-European *mere (“to delay, hinder”), from *(s)mer- (“to fall into thinking, remember; to care for”)).

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