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of which are edged with minute sharp teeth. -- Razor grinder (Zoöl.), the European goat-sucker. -- Razor shell (Zoöl.), any marine bivalve shell belonging to Solen and allied genera, especially Solen, or Ensatella, ensis, and Americana, which have a long, narrow, somewhat curved shell, resembling a razor handle in s…

(Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker.

A bloodsucker, or leech.

used especially by water-color artists. -- Sap rot, the dry rot. See under Dry. -- Sap sucker (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus, especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (S. varius) of the Eastern United States. They are so named because they puncture the bark…

A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.

ly written also cisors, cizars, and scissars.] Scissors grinder (Zoöl.), the European goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]

m its harsh cry before rain. -- Screech rain. -- Screech hawk (Zoöl.), the European goatsucker; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.] -- Screech owl. (Zoöl.) (a) A small American owl (Scops asio), either gray or reddish in color. (b) The European barn owl. The name is applied also to other species.…

A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds.

A sucker, as of tree or shrub.

The carp sucker.

A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.

Producing stolons; putting forth suckers.

To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. R. D. Blackmore.

A division of passerine birds including the humming birds, swifts, and goatsuckers. It is now generally considered an artificial group.

A sucker fish.

Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are usually stalked.

A little shoot; a twig; a sucker. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Producing suckers, or shoots resembling suckers.

East Indian and Australian singing birds of the genus Dicæum. They are allied to the honeysuckers.

A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1. Swordfish sucker (Zoöl.), a remora (Remora brachyptera) which attaches itself to the swordfish.