whalesucker

1. 1.

   large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins

   Synonymswhale suckerRemilegia australis

   Broaderremora

   Part ofRemilegia

Other forms of whalesucker

plural

whalesuckers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about whalesucker

What does whalesucker mean?

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

How many syllables are in whalesucker?

whalesucker has 4 syllables: wha-le-suc-ker. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for whalesucker?

Close synonyms include whale sucker, 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 whalesucker a common word?

whalesucker 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.