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# remora

noun (a remora, remoras)

«remora» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A remora is a fish with a flat sucker on top of its head that it uses to stick to sharks, whales, turtles and boats and ride along with them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science lessons it is an example of animals living together (symbiosis, commensalism): the remora gets a free ride and scraps of food. Phrases: a remora on a shark, suckerfish.

### Examples

- A remora clung to the shark's belly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/#x1)
- Remoras eat scraps left by the shark. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/#x2)
- The remora has a sucker on its head. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/#x3)
- Divers saw remoras stuck to a turtle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/#x4)
- A remora is also called a suckerfish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/#x5)
- The shark does not seem to mind the remora. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/#x6)

### Note

Countable: remoras. Say REM-or-uh. Myth: sailors once believed remoras could stop ships; they cannot.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «remora» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remora/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«remora» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/remora.html) on Mova free.