Definition of sucker

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Sucker (n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant..

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Sucker :: Sucker (n.) The lumpfish.
Rocksucker :: Rocksucker (n.) A lamprey.
Soboles :: Soboles (n.) A sucker, as of tree or shrub..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant..
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..
Apodes :: Apodes (n. pl.) A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona.
Seersucker :: Seersucker (n.) A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance..
Polystomata :: Polystomata (n. pl.) A division of trematode worms having more two suckers. Called also Polystomea and Polystoma.
Parauque :: Parauque (n.) A bird (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.
Sandnecker :: Sandnecker (n.) A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) The remora.
Bloodsucker :: Bloodsucker (n.) A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner..
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..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above..
Distoma :: Distoma (n.) A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2..
Dorhawk :: Dorhawk (n.) The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker.
Cupule :: Cupule (n.) A sucker or acetabulum.
Wind-sucker :: Wind-sucker (n.) A horse given to wind-suckin.
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..
Hyperoartia :: Hyperoartia (n. pl.) An order of marsipobranchs including the lampreys. The suckerlike moth contains numerous teeth; the nasal opening is in the middle of the head above, but it does not connect with the mouth. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey..
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