whale sucker

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   large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins

   SynonymswhalesuckerRemilegia australis

   Broaderremora

   Part ofRemilegia

Questions about whale sucker

What does whale sucker mean?

whale sucker means "large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins".

What is another word for whale sucker?

Close synonyms include whalesucker, Remilegia australis. 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 whale sucker a common word?

whale sucker 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.