Definitions for suctorial

suctorial suc·to·ri·al

Spelling: [suhk-tawr-ee-uh l, -tohr-]
IPA: /sʌkˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr-/

Suctorial is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 748 anagrams from letters in suctorial (acilorstu).

Definitions for suctorial

adjective

  1. adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
  2. having sucking organs; imbibing or adhering by suckers.
  3. pertaining to or characterized by suction.

Origin of suctorial

1825-35; New Latin sūctōri(us) (see suctorian) + -al1

Examples for suctorial

Impregnation is effected by the male attaching itself by its suctorial mouth to the female.

By means of the suctorial mouth, stones are removed from more or less circular area so as to form a shallow excavation.

The Meckelian cartilage is at this stage placed in front of the nasal sacks, in the lower lip of the suctorial mouth.

The young fish on hatching immediately used its suctorial disc to attach itself to the sides of the vessel in which it was placed.

The wide condition of the mouth may not improbably be interpreted as a remnant of the suctorial state.

As the tadpole attains its full development, the suctorial organs behind the mouth gradually atrophy.

And to omit a number of instances, in the suctorial Hemiptera or bugs we have different grades of structure in the mouth-parts.

They are probably remnants of the same primitive organs as the suctorial disc of Lepidosteus.

The mouth in living forms is suctorial and is not supported by jaws.

All Arachnida, including Limulus, feed by suctorial action in essentially the same way as Scorpio.

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