stay-shipn.
/ˈsteɪʃɪp/ = remora n.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Echeneidae (remoras) > member of (remora)
echeneis1481
remora1533
stay-ship1567
suck-stone1602
stop-ship1605
sea-lamprey1616
ship-halter1668
sucking-fish1697
sucker1753
suck-fish1753
shark-sucker1850
ship-holder1860
fisher-fish1867
sucker-fish1867
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1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 84 The fish Echeneis or Remora, staiship, amazeth also..the beholder by his hid and occult..vertue.
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 66 Echeneis, remora,..a stay ship, because it will cleaue close and fast to the keele of ye ship, and hinder it in course.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 426 The said stay-ship Echeneis or Remora (call it whether you will).
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 355 Several species of ‘stay-ships’ or ‘remoras’ occur on our coast.
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