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remora

/ɹɪˈmɔːɹə/ UK
/ˈɹɛməɹə/ UK
/ɹiˈmɔɹə/ US
/ˈɹɛməɹə/ US

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Borrowed from Latin remora (“delay, hindrance, passive resistance”), from the belief that the fish would attach themselves to ships and slow them down, from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + mora (“delay”) (from Proto-Indo-European *mere (“to delay, hinder”), from *(s)mer- (“to fall into thinking, remember; to care for”)).

noun remora · remorae · remoras

Any of various elongate fish from the family Echeneidae, the dorsal fin of which is in the form of a suction disc that can take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals. The Remoræ (Echeneisidæ) form the last family of the soft-finned, subbrachian fishes. They are characterized at once by the top of their heads being flattened, and furnished with transverse series of cartilaginous plates, somewhat similar to the plates under the toes of the Gecko, by which these fis
Similar: echeneid, echeneidid, sharksucker, suckerfish, suckfish, suckstone
A serpent. LORD SCARSDALE. [...] On the dexter ſide, the figure of Prudence repreſented by a woman, habited argent, mantled azure, holding in her ſiniſter hand a javelin entwined with a remora proper; [...]
obsolete A delay; a hindrance, an obstacle. For to ſay [...] That the ſolidneſſe of the Earth is for the ſtation and Manſion of liuing creatures: and the like, is well inquired & collected in METAPHISICKE, but in PHISICKE they are impertinent. Nay, they are indeed but Remoraes and hinderances to ſtay and ſlugge the Shippe from furder ſayling,
obsolete A surgical instrument, intended to retain parts in their places. Rem′ora [...] The name of two surgical instruments, intended to retain parts in situ. The one was used, formerly, in castration, to prevent the intestines from protruding at the inguinal ring: the other, called Rem′ora Hilda′ni, (F[rench]) Arrêt d'Hildan, εχενηις, was employed to retain fractures an

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noun elongate fish from the family Echeneidae

Español	rémora
日本語	コバンザメ kobanzame
中文	鮣 /䲟 yìn
Português	rémora, rêmora
Deutsch	Schiffshalter
Italiano	remora
Русский	прилипа́ла prilipála

noun delay; hindrance, obstacle — see also delay, hindrance

Español	rémora

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@misc{remora_2026,
  title = {remora},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/remora},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}