remora
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How to pronounce remora in British English:
英 ['remərə]
How to pronounce remora in American English:
美 ['remərə]
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- Noun:
- marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects
单词词源
- remora (n.)
- 1560s, from Latin remora "sucking fish," literally "delay, hindrance," from re- "back" (see re-) + mora "delay" (see moratorium); so called because the fish were believed by the ancients to retard a vessel to which they attached themselves. Hence, in 17c.-18c., "an obstacle, an impediment" (the first sense of the word in Johnson's dictionary). In Greek, ekheneis, from ekhein "to hold" + naus (dative nei) "ship." Pliny writes that Antony's galley was delayed by one at Actium. Sometimes called in English stayship or stopship.
双语例句
- 1. Do you know what a remora fish is ?
- 2. Large blue pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins .
- 3. Shindo adheres to yuki like a remora adheres to a shark .