How To Use Suctorial In A Sentence
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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
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One explanation is that suctorial insect growth was limited by the phenology of the host plant and not just by climate.
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Locomotion is facilitated by three types of appendage: creeping welts, prolegs, and suctorial discs.
Insecta (Aquatic)
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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
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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.
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This fused fin is also called a suctorial disc and is used to help attach to a surface in flowing water.
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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
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I keep my cover letters brief and never too suctorial
Archive 2008-07-01
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Extremes in this case are represented by suctorial species, Poyntonia paludicola, and various semiterrestrial forms (e.g., Arthroleptides, Cycloramphus, Nannophrys, and Thoropa).
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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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Tadpoles do have several rows of denticles, as well as a large, ventrally placed, suctorial oral disk - a suction-cup shaped mouth with which it clings to rocks in fast water.
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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.
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If an animal, for example, is the suctorial member of a circle of species, forming the natatorial type of genera, forming a family or sub-family which in its turn is rasorial, its qualities must evidently be greatly mingled and ill to define.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
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As nothing indicated that the parasite was to be found in the secretions or excretions, the supposition lay near at hand, that suctorial insects would assist in carrying the parasite to a place, where it had to pass the aforementioned part of its life-cycle.
Physiology or Medicine 1902 - Presentation Speech
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The tadpoles of Amolops species are torrent-adapted, and have suctorial disks on their bellies.
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The larvae have suctorial discs and reduced tail fins, which presumably are adaptations for living in swift flowing streams.
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They feed on blood drawn from the gill filaments by a suctorial mouth.
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