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suctorians

suctorians is the plural of suctorian.

Meaning of suctorian

Noun

suctorian (plural suctorians)

  1. A protist of the subclass Suctoria in the class Phyllopharyngea; a predatory sessile ciliate.
    • 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.2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 11

Questions about suctorians

What is suctorians the plural of?
Suctorians is the plural of suctorian.

Words near suctorians in the dictionary

  1. suctiony
  2. suctomer
  3. suctorial
  4. suctorially
  5. suctorian
  6. suctorians
  7. suctorious
  8. Sucumbíos
  9. sucuruju
  10. sucurujus
  11. sud

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