Definition of sucker

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Sucker (n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant..

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Ambulacrum :: Ambulacrum (n.) One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A pipe through which anything is drawn.
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything..
Haustorium :: Haustorium (n.) One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.
Bogsucker :: Bogsucker (n.) The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above..
Surd :: Surculose (a.) Producing suckers, or shoots resembling suckers..
Honeysucker :: Honeysucker (n.) See Honey eater, under Honey..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) The lumpfish.
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..
Soboles :: Soboles (n.) A sucker, as of tree or shrub..
Dorhawk :: Dorhawk (n.) The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker.
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant..
Ambulacrum :: Ambulacrum (n.) One of the suckers on the feet of mites.
Wind-sucker :: Wind-sucker (n.) A horse given to wind-suckin.
Cyclostomi :: Cyclostomi (n. pl.) A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii..
Jar-owl :: Jar-owl (n.) The goatsucker.
Spinner :: Spinner (n.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
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..
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