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

A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

The organs of the mouth take collectively two typical forms, the masticatory and the suctorial, the former exemplified by the beetles, the latter by the butterflies, in which the mouth is purely for suction.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

The mouth is minute and the pharynx is always suctorial, never gizzard-like.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various