suctorial
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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
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
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 Rennie Wilbur Doane
Mandibles present in pupa, vestigial in imago; maxillae suctorial without specialization; first maxillae with lacinia, galea and palp.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
Muscular fibres connected with the suctorial pharynx are in Limulus inserted into the entosternite, and the activity of the two organs may be correlated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
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