'Sucking fish' definitions:
Definition of 'sucking fish'
(from WordNet)
noun
Marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects [syn: remora, suckerfish, sucking fish]
Definition of 'Sucking fish'
From: GCIDE
- Sucking \Suck"ing\, a. Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. [1913 Webster]
- I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under Bottle.
- Sucking fish (Zool.), the remora. See Remora. --Baird.
- 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. [1913 Webster]