Word Finder - suckers

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A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.

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An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.

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(by extension) A parasite; a sponger.

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An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.

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A thing that works by sucking something.

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The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

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A pipe through which anything is drawn.

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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; formerly used by children as a plaything.

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A suction cup.

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An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.

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Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments.

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A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.

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A hard drinker.

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• soaker
• suck-pint

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An inhabitant of Illinois.

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• Illinoisian

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A migrant lead miner working in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa, working in summer and leaving for winter, so named because of the similarity to the migratory patterns of the North American Catostomidae.

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A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person.

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One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings.

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• chump
• fall guy
• fish
• fool
• gull
• mark
• mug
• patsy
• rube
• schlemiel
• soft touch

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A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.

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A sucker for ghost stories.

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(British slang) The penis.

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Any thing or object.

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See if you can get that sucker working again.

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A person.

In relation to their parasitic habit one or two suckers are always developed, the one at the anterior and the other at the posterior end of the body.

Other genera are Aglauropsis, Gossea and Gonionemus; the last named bears adhesive suckers on the tentacles.

The fore-legs of many male dyticids have the three proximal foot-segments broad and saucer-shaped, and covered with suckers, by means of which they secure a firm hold of their mates.

Buffalo-fish, paddle-fish, cat-fish, drum, crappie, black bass, rock bass, German carp, sturgeon, pike, perch, eels, suckers and shrimp inhabit the waters of the Mississippi and its tributaries, and oysters, shrimp, trout, Spanish mackerel, channel bass, black bass, sheepshead, mullet, croakers, pompano, pin-fish, blue-fish, flounders, crabs and terrapin are obtained from the Mississippi Sound and the rivers flowing into it.

Suckers afford the strongest and earliest-bearing plants.

It bears adhesive organs that are either suckers or hooks, and may develop into the most varied outgrowths in order to give increased firmness of attachment to its host.

These complex organs have apparently arisen by the increase in depth and differentiation of an accessory sucker such as is borne on the phyllidia of the former group. Lastly, the scolex of the more familiar Taeniidae (Tetracotylea) carries a rostellum encircled with hooks and four cup-shaped suckers the margins of which do not project beyond the surface of the body.

It seems probable that these suckers are not the true " bothria " but are developed from accessory suckers, the bases of which have disappeared almost completely.

B, head showing the suckers, proboscides and excretory canals; X 25.

The four suckers are here united to form two pairs or fused into a single pair.

Internal to the suckers are the four complex hooked proboscides.

The thicker portion develops a terminal muscular rostellum and two or four suckers, the thinner end (" tail ") is vesicular, more or less elongated, and contains the six embryonic hooks.

Scolex with four suckers, rarely hooked, and with a rostellum.

As one result of the topping, suckers are usually formed; these also must be removed, although, e.g.

Careful examination of a large number of individuals of one variety growing under similar conditions reveals differences in such characters as number of leaves per plant, the size and shape of the leaves, tendency to form suckers, time of maturing and resistance to disease.

They are flattened organisms provided with two or more suckers, hence their name (7 rpThµarc,8rls, pierced with holes), and are exclusively parasitic both in their earlier and mature stages of life.

The ventral surface is characterized by one or more suckers and apertures.

The mouth lies usually in the centre of the anterior vzs and sub-terminal sucker or between two adoral suckers, but in Gasterostomum and its allies it is mid-ventral.

In the former position the suckers are developed and growth proceeds for 8 to Io weeks until the metamorphosis of its host.

If successful, the larva throws off its cilia and develops a dorsal papilla, a median ventral sucker and an additional pair of lateral suckers.

In addition to these suckers the sides of the anterior region may become infolded and give rise to an accessory adhesive organ (Holostomidae).

When that occurs, the cyst is dissolved and the minute fluke works its way down the alimentary canal into some part of which it inserts its suckers and commences to feed on the blood of its host.

A third genus, Chonopeltis (Thiele, 1900), has suckers, but has lost its first antennae, at least in the female.

The plant is propagated from suckers and requires very little attention after transplanting to the field where it is to remain, but it takes six to eight years to mature and then yields an average of ten gallons of sap during a period of four or five months, after which it dies.

Many of the lakes and rivers have been stocked with trout and salmon or bass; some, with smelt; the fresh waters of the state also contain pickerel, perch, pouts, eels, suckers, dace, sunfish and shiners.

Stem suckers are such as proceed from the base of the stem, as is often seen in the case of the currant and lilac. They should be removed in any case; when required for propagation they should be taken with all the roots attached to them, and they should be as thoroughly disbudded below ground as possible, or they are liable to continue the habit of suckering.

Trees to be grown in the form of a bush are usually budded low down on the stem of the stock as near the root as possible to obviate the development of wild suckers later on.

Remove from raspberries and strawberries all suckers and runners that are not wanted.

Propagate all sorts of herbaceous plants by rooted slips or suckers; take off layers of carnations, picotees and pansies.

Plums are propagated chiefly by budding on stocks of the Mussel, Brussels, St Julien and Pear plums. The damson, wine-sour and other varieties, planted as standards, are generally increased by suckers.

The wood of the aspen is very light and soft, though tough; it is employed by coopers, chiefly for pails and herring-casks; it is also made into butchers' trays, pack-saddles, and various articles for which its lightness recommends it; sabots are also made of it in France, and in medieval days it was valued for arrows, especially for those used in target practice; the bark is used for tanning in northern countries; cattle and deer browse greedily on the young shoots and abundant suckers.

The aspen is readily propagated either by cuttings or suckers, but has been but little planted of late years in Britain.

It may be propagated by suckers and layers, by grafting and by sowing.

Grafted filberts are less liable than others to be encumbered by suckers at the root.

Veitchii, a more recent introduction (1868) from Japan, has smaller leaves very variable in shape; it clings readily to stone or brick work by means of suckers at the ends of the branched tendrils.

After development of fruit the plant dies down, but suckers are frequently produced from the base of the stem which become new plants.

Among fishes, white fish, lake trout, perch, herring, sun-fish, bass, sturgeon, pickerel, suckers, German carp and fresh-water drum abound in the lakes.

Beyond the parapodia are four pairs of organs, often called suckers, but probably of sensory nature, and comparable to the lateral sense organs of Capitellids (Wheeler).

The name "suckers" was applied generally to all the people of Illinois, and the name "badgers" to the people of Wisconsin and "badger state" to the state.

There are a few speckled trout in the mountain streams, but the commoner fish are bass, perch, catfish, crappies, pike, drum buffalo, carp, suckers and eels.

They had six legs with little pads for feet instead of toes and claws, a delicate snout not quite the length of an anteater's lined with fine hairs and tiny teeth used to vacuum up mold, dust, and dirt that was its main food source, and an odd habit of climbing walls with hidden suckers in its padded feet.

Sycamore and gray alder are a nuisance because they seed prolifically, while the gray alder also tends to produce suckers.

The suckers are approximately the same in size, the ventral sucker being slightly anterior to the midline of the parasite.

The plant is entirely parasitic on Nettles and feeds on their sap using especially adapted ' suckers ' .

The suckers on the end of the tube feet mean that urchins can attach very securely to the rocky seabed.

Remember to remove any suckers; these are shoots growing from below the union on the root system.

Note the two suckers, the ventral sucker near the genital pore, and the oral sucker near the oesophageal gland.

It has two rubber suckers for fixing it to a window of your vehicle.

The root suckers need amazing strength to push up through the tarmac.

The white poplar is an ornamental tree, from its graceful though somewhat irregular growth and its dense hoary foliage; it has, however, the disadvantage of throwing up numerous suckers for some yards around the trunk.