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Definition of Suctorial
1. Adjective. Adapted for sucking or clinging by suction.
Definition of Suctorial
1. a. Adapted for sucking; living by sucking; as, the humming birds are suctorial birds.
Definition of Suctorial
1. Adjective. (zoology) Adapted for sucking; living by sucking. ¹
2. Adjective. (zoology) Capable of adhering by suction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Suctorial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suctorial
Literary usage of Suctorial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy by Richard Thoma (1896)
"The occurrence of suctorial discs in other parts of the body determines the ...
The anterior pole of the body carries the oral suctorial disc (Fig. 76). ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The same species, showing tui two kinds of tentacle- (the suctorial and the
pointed), and tile con- tractile vacuoles ь. 10. ..."
3. The Origin of Vertebrates by Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1908)
"The suctorial apparatus of the adult Petromyzon.—Its origin in Ammocoetes.—Its
derivation from appendages. —The segment of the lower lip or ..."
4. Sanitary entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"Mouth parts of flies: o, suctorial type; 6, biting type. ... 10), that is, whether
they are adapted for biting or are simply suctorial, then the common name ..."
5. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1882)
"Riley spoke of a suctorial organ of prehension in the thoracic proleg and ...
Gill, speaking of the suctorial powers of young marsupiales stated that he ..."
6. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"195) with its anteriorly placed suctorial disc, (3) the adhesive papillae ...
The fact that no more definite remnants of the suctorial mouth are found in so ..."
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