swordfish sucker

English

Noun

swordfish sucker (plural swordfish suckers)

1. A spearfish remora (Remora brachyptera), which attaches itself to a swordfish, billfish, or shark and feeds off it.

References

• spearfish remora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “swordfish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.