Definition of sucker

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Sucker (n.) A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything..

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Malacobdella :: Malacobdella (n.) A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha..
Acetabulifera :: Acetabulifera (n. pl.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda..
Nyctibune :: Nyctibune (n.) A South American bird of the genus Nyctibius, allied to the goatsuckers..
Hag :: Hag (n.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken..
Ambulacral :: Ambulacral (a.) Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket..
Surd :: Surculose (a.) Producing suckers, or shoots resembling suckers..
Chuck-will''s-widow :: Chuck-Will's-widow (n.) A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note..
Hydra :: Hydra (n.) Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) The hagfish, or myxine..
Whip-poor-will :: Whip-poor-will (n.) An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker; -- so called in imitation of the peculiar notes which it utters in the evening.
Sanguisuge :: Sanguisuge (n.) A bloodsucker, or leech..
Calycozoa :: Calycozoa (n. pl.) A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.
Creekfish :: Creekfish (n.) The chub sucker.
Parauque :: Parauque (n.) A bird (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.
Stool :: Stool (v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers..
Nightjar :: Nightjar (n.) A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker..
Quillback :: Quillback (n.) An American fresh-water fish (Ictiobus, / Carpiodes, cyprinus); -- called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, and skimback..
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