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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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Acetabulum :: Acetabulum (n.) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.

Apodes :: Apodes (n. pl.) A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona.

Sea Snail :: Sea snail () A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds..

Bloodsucker :: Bloodsucker (n.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species..

Surcloyed :: Surcle (n.) A little shoot; a twig; a sucker.

Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A greenhorn; one easily gulled.

Patellula :: Patellula (n.) A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.

Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above..

Picariae :: Picariae (n. pl.) An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds..

Goatsucker :: Goatsucker (n.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europaeus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk..

Cyclostomi :: Cyclostomi (n. pl.) A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii..

Wheeler :: Wheeler (n.) The European goatsucker.

Xenopterygii :: Xenopterygii (n. pl.) A suborder of fishes including Gobiesox and allied genera. These fishes have soft-rayed fins, and a ventral sucker supported in front by the pectoral fins. They are destitute of scales..

Honeysucker :: Honeysucker (n.) See Honey eater, under Honey..

Ambulacrum :: Ambulacrum (n.) One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays..

Stool :: Stool (v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers..

Ambulacrum :: Ambulacrum (n.) One of the suckers on the feet of mites.

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..

Cuttlefish :: Cuttlefish (n.) A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally..

Strove :: Strisores (n. pl.) A division of passerine birds including the humming birds, swifts, and goatsuckers. It is now generally considered an artificial group..