Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various aquatic protozoans of the subclass Suctoria that have a free-swimming ciliated immature form and a sessile, stalked adult form that lacks cilia and feeds by means of suctorial tentacles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A suctorial animal; a member of the Suctoria, in any sense; especially, a cyclostomous fish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Suctoria.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
protist of the subclass Suctoria in the class Phyllopharyngea; a predatory sessile ciliate.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Sūctōria, class name, from neuter pl. of sūctōrius, suctorial; see suctorial.]
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From Suctoria + -an.
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