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- English Word Sucker Definition A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.
- English Word Sucker Definition Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little 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 suckerel.
- English Word Sucker Definition The remora.
- English Word Sucker Definition The lumpfish.
- English Word Sucker Definition The hagfish, or myxine.
- English Word Sucker Definition A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
- English Word Sucker Definition A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
- English Word Sucker Definition A hard drinker; a soaker.
- English Word Sucker Definition A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
- English Word Sucker Definition A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
- English Word Sucker Definition To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
- English Word Sucker Definition To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
- English Word Suckered Definition of Sucker
- English Word Suckering Definition of Sucker
- English Word Sucket Definition A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel.
- English Word Suckfish Definition A sucker fish.
- English Word Sucking Definition of Suck
- English Word Sucking Definition Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.
- English Word Suckle Definition A teat.
- English Word Suckle Definition To give suck to; to nurse at the breast.