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suctorial

ADJECTIVE
  1. adapted for sucking or clinging by suction

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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
  • One explanation is that suctorial insect growth was limited by the phenology of the host plant and not just by climate.
  • Locomotion is facilitated by three types of appendage: creeping welts, prolegs, and suctorial discs. Insecta (Aquatic)
  • I feel great difficulty in conceiving by what natural process an insect with a suctorial mouth, like that of a gnat or butterfly, could be developed from a powerfully mandibulate type like the orthoptera, or even from the neuroptera ... More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
  • Dropping into one of the deeper pools under a ledge, I found a loricariid catfish, with its suctorial mouth, under a dead log - a favourite hang-out.
  • This fused fin is also called a suctorial disc and is used to help attach to a surface in flowing water.
  • The five tribes of the order are completed, the vespertilionidae being shifted (provisionally) into the natatorial place, for which their appropriateness is so far evidenced by the aquatic habits of several of the tribe, and the lemuridae into the suctorial, to which their length of muzzle and remarkable saltatory power are highly suitable. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
  • I keep my cover letters brief and never too suctorial Archive 2008-07-01
  • Extremes in this case are represented by suctorial species, Poyntonia paludicola, and various semiterrestrial forms (e.g., Arthroleptides, Cycloramphus, Nannophrys, and Thoropa).
  • This group includes the suctorial lice, confined to mammals; they are strictly parasitic insects, being confined to their hosts constantly and deriving all their nourishment from them.
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