suctorial

How to use suctorial in a sentence

• In this septum there is formed at a later stage a vertical muscle attached to the suctorial part of the stomodum.

  The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 | Francis Maitland Balfour

• Lampreys are carnivorous creatures, and attach themselves to fishes by their suctorial mouths, and rasp away the flesh.

  The Sea Shore | William S. Furneaux

• The two heterogenetic generations are very different in the parasitic suctorial worms (trematodes).

  The Wonders of Life | Ernst Haeckel

• In the same place the suctorial Entomostraca are added as examples of the difficulty of recognising the type.

  The Foundations of the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin

• It is called by Mr. Swainson the suctorial, from a very generally prevalent peculiarity, that of drawing sustenance by suction.

  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation | Robert Chambers