sucking fish

Questions about sucking fish

What does sucking fish mean?

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

What is another word for sucking fish?

Close synonyms include remora, suckerfish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sucking fish a common word?

sucking fish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.