Definition of sucker

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

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Collophore :: Collophore (n.) A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.
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..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A pipe through which anything is drawn.
Sandnecker :: Sandnecker (n.) A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker..
Quillback :: Quillback (n.) An American fresh-water fish (Ictiobus, / Carpiodes, cyprinus); -- called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, and skimback..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A suckling; a sucking animal.
Spearfish :: Spearfish (n.) The carp sucker.
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..
Amphistomous :: Amphistomous (a.) Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere..
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.
Ambulacrum :: Ambulacrum (n.) One of the suckers on the feet of mites.
Patellula :: Patellula (n.) A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
Acetabulum :: Acetabulum (n.) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
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..
Seersucker :: Seersucker (n.) A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar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..
Mudsucker :: Mudsucker (n.) A woodcock.
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..
Apodes :: Apodes (n. pl.) A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona.
Stomata :: Stoloniferous (a.) Producing stolons; putting forth suckers.
Lucernaria :: Lucernaria (n.) A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel..
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