adjective
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specialized for sucking or adhering
the suctorial mouthparts of certain insects
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relating to or possessing suckers or suction
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of suctorial
1825–35; < New Latin sūctōri ( us ) ( see suctorian) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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A male lamprey eel apparently recognizes sex only by attaching himself with his suctorial mouth to another eel that clings to a rock.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Encyclopedia describes it as of the order of Hexapoda, has firmly chitinized cuticle, and can be recognized by the combination of imperfectly suctorial jaws.
From Time Magazine Archive
A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
Unattached forms; ventral cilia present; one suctorial tentacle Hypocomidæ b.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)
And to omit a number of instances, in the suctorial Hemiptera or bugs we have different grades of structure in the mouth-parts.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
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