suctorial

IPA: sˈʌktˈɔriʌɫ

Examples of "suctorial" in Sentences

I keep my cover letters brief and never too suctorial
The lips are thick and fringed, though not modified to be suctorial.
The teeth are adapted for the suctorial feeding habits of the group.
They feed on blood drawn from the gill filaments by a suctorial mouth.
Benthic marine enoplans are suctorial feeders and prey mainly on crustaceans.
Locomotion is facilitated by three types of appendage: creeping welts, prolegs, and suctorial discs.
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.
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.