Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Suctorial animals: applied to various zoölogical groups in which the mouth is suctorial, haustellate, siphonostomous, or otherwise fitted for sucking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) An order of Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are usually stalked.
- noun plural Same as
Rhizocephala .
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Examples
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Instrumenta suctoria: mouth parts of a haustellate insect as a whole.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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