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Fissirostral :: Fissirostral (a.) Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers..

Haustorium :: Haustorium (n.) One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.

Sanguisuge :: Sanguisuge (n.) A bloodsucker, or leech..

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..

Cupule :: Cupule (n.) A sucker or acetabulum.

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.

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

Nightjar :: Nightjar (n.) A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker..

Dibranchiata :: Dibranchiata (n. pl.) An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda..

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

Collophore :: Collophore (n.) A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.

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..

Trematodea :: Trematodea (n. pl.) An extensive order of parasitic worms. They are found in the internal cavities of animals belonging to all classes. Many species are found, also, on the gills and skin of fishes. A few species are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually have a flattened body covered with a chitinous skin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodi

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

Amphistomous :: Amphistomous (a.) Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere..

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..

Suctoria :: Suctoria (n. pl.) An order of Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are usually stalked..

Fluke :: Fluke (n.) A parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two suckers. Two species (Fasciola hepatica and Distoma lanceolatum) are found in the livers of sheep, and produce the disease called rot..

Marsipobranchia :: Marsipobranchia (n. pl.) A class of Vertebrata, lower than fishes, characterized by their purselike gill cavities, cartilaginous skeletons, absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii..

Sucker :: Sucker (v. t.) To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize..

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