Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Adapted for sucking or clinging by suction.
  • adjective Having organs or parts adapted for sucking or clinging.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Adapted for sucking; functioning as a sucker or sucking-organ of any kind: sucking: haustellate: as, the suctorial mouth of a lamprey, the suctorial tongue (antlia) of a butterfly or moth; the suctorial proboscis of a flea; the suctorial disk of a sucking-fish, an octopod, a leech; the suctorial facets of a trematoid worm; the suctorial tentacles of an infusorian.
  • Capable of sucking; fitted for imbibing fluid or for adhering by means of suckers: provided with a sucking-organ, whether for imbibing or for adhering; of or pertaining to the Suctoria, in any sense: as, a suctorial bird, fish, worm, insect, crustacean, or animalcule.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Adapted for sucking; living by sucking.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) Capable of adhering by suction.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective zoology Adapted for sucking; living by sucking.
  • adjective zoology Capable of adhering by suction.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective adapted for sucking or clinging by suction

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin sūctōrius, from Latin sūctus, past participle of sūgere, to suck; see seuə- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin sugere, suctum, to suck.

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