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81suckinglouse — sucking louse n. Any of various small wingless insects of the order Anoplura that have mouthparts adapted for piercing and sucking. * * * …
82fressreflex — Sucking and chewing movements elicited by stimulation of the face and lips. [Ger fr. fressen, to feed, said of animals] * * * fress·re·flex (fresґre fleks) [Ger. “eating reflexâ€] rhythmic sucking, chewing, and swallowing movements elicited by …
83opercular pumping — sucking or blowing water through the mouth by means of lifting the operculum to create a suction mechanism. Used by some fishes to aerate their eggs …
84sucktastic — Sucking beyond belief. That new tie you bought me was sucktastic …
85sucktastic — Sucking beyond belief. That new tie you bought me was sucktastic …
86insect — insectival /in sek tuy veuhl/, adj. /in sekt/, n. 1. any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two… …
87louse — n. /lows/; v. /lows, lowz/, n., pl. lice /luys/ for 1 3, louses for 4, v., loused, lousing. n. 1. any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse), parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking,… …
88heteropteran — ▪ insect order Introduction any member of the insect order Heteroptera, which comprises the so called true bugs. (Some authorities use the name Hemiptera; others consider both the heteropterans and the homopterans to be suborders of the… …
89Insect mouthparts — The development of insect mouthparts from the primitive chewing mouthparts of a grasshopper in the centre (A), to the lapping type (B) of a bee, the siphoning type (C) of a butterfly and the sucking type (D) of a female mosquito. Legend: a,… …
90suck — [suk] vt. [ME suken < OE sucan, akin to Ger saugen < IE * seuk , *seug < base * seu , damp, juice > SUP1, L sucus, juice, sugere, to suck] 1. a) to draw (liquid) into the mouth by creating a vacuum or partial vacuum with the lips,… …
