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Sucking fish   /sˈəkɪŋ fɪʃ/   Listen
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Sucking  adj.  Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. "I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing."
Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under Bottle.
Sucking fish (Zool.), the remora. See Remora.
Sucking pump, a suction pump. See under Suction.
Sucking stomach (Zool.), the muscular first stomach of certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid food.






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"Sucking fish" Quotes from Famous Books



... two days I continued my course to the southward, upon my novel conveyances during which I had nothing to eat except a few small barnacles, and some parasitical vermin, peculiar to the animal, which I discovered under his fins. I also found a small remora, or sucking fish, near his tail, but when I put it to my mouth, it fixed itself so firmly on both my lips that I thought they were sealed for ever. No force could detach it, and there it hung like a padlock for many hours, to my great mortification and annoyance, but at last it died from ...
— The Pacha of Many Tales • Frederick Marryat



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