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
It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H by Project Gutenberg
In certain insects they are not used as jaws, but may form suctorial organs.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section M, N, and O by Project Gutenberg
Myzontes, mī-zon′tēz, n.pl. a class of vertebrates with an incomplete cartilaginous skull, no lower jaw, and pouch-like gills—including the lampreys and hags.—adj. and n. suctorial as the lamprey, belonging to the Myzontes.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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