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Suctorian vs Suctorial - What's the difference?

suctorian | suctorial |

As a noun suctorian

is a protist of the subclass Suctoria in the class class: Phyllopharyngea; a predatory sessile ciliate.

As an adjective suctorial is

adapted for sucking; living by sucking.

suctorian

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A protist of the subclass Suctoria in the class ; a predatory sessile ciliate.
  • *2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 11:
  • *:If the tentacles are touched, the ‘prey’ is instantly paralysed, and the contents of its body are sucked down the tentacle into the body of the suctorian , reducing the prey to a shrivelled husk in a matter of minutes.

    • Hypernyms

    * phyllopharyngean * ciliophoran * alveolate * protist * eukaryote * microbe

    See also

    * (Suctoria)

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    suctorial

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (zoology) Adapted for sucking; living by sucking.
    • The hummingbirds are suctorial birds.
  • (zoology) Capable of adhering by suction.
    • the suctorial fishes

    See also

    * Suctoria (Webster 1913)