suctorial
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A male lamprey eel apparently recognizes sex only by attaching himself with his suctorial mouth to another eel that clings to a rock.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Encyclopedia describes it as of the order of Hexapoda, has firmly chitinized cuticle, and can be recognized by the combination of imperfectly suctorial jaws.
From Time Magazine Archive
Biting mandibles; second maxillae incompletely or completely fused; often forming a suctorial proboscis.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
The mouth is suctorial, and the two horny rods, with their central piece or pieces, are protrusile.
From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.
Dis�tomum, a genus of trematode or suctorial parasitic worms or flukes, infesting various parts in different animals.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
