Animals such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs
A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; used by children as a plaything
1 A shoot arising from below ground level 2 Lateral underground shoot that leaves the roots or rhizome and forms roots itself, making an independent individual plant
The suckers on some animals and insects are the parts on the outside of their body which they use in order to stick to a surface
The unwanted shoots from the stem or roots that draw nutrients and sap the plants fruiting and flowering ability
mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
Growth that occurs from the root stock rather than from the grafted region For example, non-disease resistant roses are often grafted to a disease resistant root stock Without proper maintenance suckers will grow from the root stock
disapproval If you call someone a sucker, you mean that it is very easy to cheat them. But that is what the suckers want so you give it them
Any of the many freshwater fishes of the family Catostomidæ Represented in the BWCA by the Longnose Sucker (Catostomus catostomus), and the ubiquitous White Sucker (Catostomus commersoni) From the shape of the lips, which suggests these fishes feed by sucking