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n.
Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.
n.
A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery.
n. pl.
A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).
a.
Capable of adhering by suction; as, the suctorial fishes.
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Adapted for sucking; living by sucking; as, the humming birds are suctorial birds.
v. i.
To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.
n. pl.
Same as Rhizocephala.
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Suctorial.
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That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.
v. t.
To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger.
n.
Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order Scorpiones, having a suctorial mouth, large claw-bearing palpi, and a caudal sting.
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An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs (mandibles and maxillae) with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvae (called maggots) being usually without feet.
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An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
n. pl.
A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.
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One of the Suctoria.
n. pl.
Same as Suctoria, 1.
n.
The act of driving forward; propulsion; -- opposed to suction or traction.
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One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.
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.
v. t.
The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.
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