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ttle value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and s…

Illinois; -- a nickname.

Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.

The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.

One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europæus); -- 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…

See Honey eater, under Honey.

The lumprish.

A woodcock.

A lamprey.

A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.

The kestrel. B. Jonson.

The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.

or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

cipal 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.

Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.

A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona.

An Australian honeysucker (Myzomela sanguineolata); -- so called from the bright red color of the male bird.

The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.

pe. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.