Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Adapted for sucking or clinging by suction.
- adjective Having organs or parts adapted for sucking or clinging.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Adapted for sucking; functioning as a sucker or sucking-organ of any kind: sucking: haustellate: as, the suctorial mouth of a lamprey, the suctorial tongue (antlia) of a butterfly or moth; the suctorial proboscis of a flea; the suctorial disk of a sucking-fish, an octopod, a leech; the suctorial facets of a trematoid worm; the suctorial tentacles of an infusorian.
- Capable of sucking; fitted for imbibing fluid or for adhering by means of suckers: provided with a sucking-organ, whether for imbibing or for adhering; of or pertaining to the Suctoria, in any sense: as, a suctorial bird, fish, worm, insect, crustacean, or animalcule.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Adapted for sucking; living by sucking.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Capable of adhering by suction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Adapted for
sucking ; living by sucking. - adjective zoology Capable of
adhering bysuction .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective adapted for sucking or clinging by suction
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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They feed on blood drawn from the gill filaments by a suctorial mouth.
Word of the Day frankwu 2008
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Locomotion is facilitated by three types of appendage: creeping welts, prolegs, and suctorial discs.
Insecta (Aquatic) 2008
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I keep my cover letters brief and never too suctorial
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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I keep my cover letters brief and never too suctorial
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I keep my cover letters brief and never too suctorial
Modern SF Novelist jimhines 2008
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I keep my cover letters brief and never too suctorial
Poetry in SF notion... Glenda Larke 2008
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I keep my cover letters brief and never too suctorial
It’s 2:30 a.m. maryrobinette 2008
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I keep my cover letters brief and never too suctorial
Archive 2008-07-01 Glenda Larke 2008
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As nothing indicated that the parasite was to be found in the secretions or excretions, the supposition lay near at hand, that suctorial insects would assist in carrying the parasite to a place, where it had to pass the aforementioned part of its life-cycle.
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Manson reasoned that certain suctorial insects were the agencies through which blood was most commonly removed from the circulation and he ventured the guess that this change in the parasite that may be seen taking place on the slide under the microscope, normally takes place in the stomach of some insect that sucks man's blood.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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