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

By means of the suctorial mouth, stones are removed from more or less circular area so as to form a shallow excavation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

The older entomologists divided insects into haustellate or suctorial, and mandibulate or biting insects, the butterfly being an example of one, and the beetle serving to illustrate the other category.

From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)

The organs of the mouth take collectively two typical forms, the masticatory and the suctorial, the former exemplified by the beetles, the latter by the butterflies, in which the mouth is purely for suction.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various