suctorial

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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

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

There are, however, peculiar difficulties in those cases in which, as among the Lepidoptera, the same species is mandibulate as a larva, and suctorial as an imago.

From On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Lubbock, John, Sir

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

In certain insects they are not used as jaws, but may form suctorial organs.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section M, N, and O by Project Gutenberg