Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - remora
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Remora
remora
noun Etymology: Late Latin, from Latin, delay, from ~ri to delay, from re- + morari to delay — more at moratorium Date: 1567 1. any of a family (Echeneidae) of marine bony fishes that have the anterior dorsal fin modified into a suctorial disk on the head by means of which they adhere especially to other fishes 2. hindrance, drag
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1.
n. Zool. any of various marine fish of the family Echeneidae, which attach themselves by modified sucker-like fins to other fish and to ships. Etymology: L, = hindrance (as RE-, mora delay, from the former belief that the fish slowed ships down) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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3.
1. лат. помеха 2. обыкновенный прилипало (Echeneis naucrates) 3. акулья ремора (Remora remora) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
- from L. re- "back" + mora "delay;" so called because the fish were believed by the ancients to retard a vessel to which they attached themselves. Pliny writes that Antony's galley was delayed by one at the Battle of Actium. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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