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
Biting mandibles; second maxillae incompletely or completely fused; often forming a suctorial proboscis.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
Myzontes, mī-zon′tēz, n.pl. a class of vertebrates with an incomplete cartilaginous skull, no lower jaw, and pouch-like gills—including the lampreys and hags.—adj. and n. suctorial as the lamprey, belonging to the Myzontes.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
The mouth is suctorial, and the two horny rods, with their central piece or pieces, are protrusile.
From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.
