n. One who or that which sucks; a suckling.n. Specifically— A sucking pig: a commercial term.n. Anew-born or very young whale.n. In ornithology, a bird which sucks or is supposed to do so: only in composition. See goatsucker, honey-sucker.n. In ichthyology, one of numerous fishes which suck in some way or are supposed to do so, having a conformation of the protrusive lips which suggests a sucker, or a sucker-like organ on any part of the body by means of which the fish adheres to foreign objects. Any North American cyprinoid of the family Catostomidæ, as a carp-sucker, chub-sucker, hog-sucker, etc. There are about 60 species, of some 12 or 14 genera, almost confined to the fresh waters of North America, though one or two are Asiatic; they are little esteemed for food, the flesh being insipid and full of small bones. Leading generic forms besides Catostomus are Ictiobus and Bubalichthys, the buffalo-fishes; Carpiodes, the carp-suckers, as C. cyprinus, the quillback or skimback; Cycleptus, as C. elongatus, the black-horse, or gourd-seed sucker; Pantosteus, the hard-headed suckers; Erimyzon, the chub-suckers, as E. sucetta, the sweet sucker; Minytrema, the spotted suckers; Mozostoma, some of whose many species are called mullet, chubmullet, jump-rocks, red-horse, etc.; and Quassilabia, or harelipped suckers. (See the distinctive names, with various cuts.) The typical genus Catostomus is an extensive one, including some of the commonest species, as C. commersoni, the white or brook sucker, 18 inches long, widely distributed from Labrador to Montana and southward to Florida; its section Hypentelium contains H. nigricans, the hog-sucker, hog-molly, or stone-lugger, etc.n. Any fish of the genus Lepadogaster. The Cornish sucker is L. gouani; the Connemara sucker, L. candollei; the bimaculated or network sucker, L. bimaculatus. See cut under Lepadogaster.n. A snail-fish or sea-snail; one of several different members of the family Liparididæ, as the unctuous sucker, Liparis vulgaris. See cuts under snail-fish.n. The lump-sucker or lump-fish. See cut under Cyclopterus.n. The sucking-fish or remora. See cut under Echeneis.n. A cyclostomous fish, as the glutinous hag, Myxine glutinosa. See cut under hag, 3.n. A Californian food-fish, the sciænoid Menticirrus undulatus.n. A suctorial part or organ; a formation of parts by means of which an animal sucks, imbibes, or adheres by atmospheric pressure, as if sucking; a sucking-tube or sucking-disk.n. The piston of a suction-pump.n. A pipe or tube through which anything is drawn.n. In botany: A shoot rising from a subterranean creeping stem. Plants which emit suckers freely, as the raspberry and rose, are readily propagated by division.n. A sprout from the root near or at a distance from the trunk, as in the pear and white poplar, or an adventitious shoot from the body or a branch of a tree.n. Same as haustorium. Compare propagulum .n. A small piece of leather to the center of which a string is attached, used by children as a toy.n. A parasite; a sponger; in recent use, also, a stupid person; a dolt.n. A cant name for an inhabitant of Illinois.n. Same as sucket, 1.To strip off suckers or shoots from; deprive of suckers; specifically, to remove superfluous shoots from the root and at the axils of the leaves of (tobacco).To provide with suckers: as, the suckered arms of a cuttlefish.To send out suckers or shoots.n. n. A lump of hard candy on the end of a stick.
