suctorial

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The Encyclopedia describes it as of the order of Hexapoda, has firmly chitinized cuticle, and can be recognized by the combination of imperfectly suctorial jaws.

From Time Magazine Archive

A male lamprey eel apparently recognizes sex only by attaching himself with his suctorial mouth to another eel that clings to a rock.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rhynchetid�, ring-ket′i-dē, n.pl. a family of suctorial infusorians—its typical genus, Rhynchē′ta.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Fleas or other suctorial insects feeding on such rats take myriads of these bacilli into their stomach and get many on their proboscis.

From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Doane, Rennie Wilbur

It is called by Mr. Swainson the suctorial, from a very generally prevalent peculiarity, that of drawing sustenance by suction. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert