Word Meanings - HAUSTELLUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera.

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• PROBOSCIS
  A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk. Note: The proboscis of an elephant is a flexible muscular elongation of the nose.
• SUCKATASH
  See BARTLETT
• SUCKFISH
  A sucker fish.
• SUCKLING
  1. A young child or animal nursed at the breast. 2. A small kind of yellow clover common in Southern Europe.
• SUCKEN
  The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.
• SUCKLE
  A teat. Sir T. Herbert.
• SUCK
  Icel. s, sj, Sw. suga, Dan. suge, L. sugere. Cf. Honeysuckle, Soak, 1. To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force
• SUCKLER
  An animal that suckles its young; a mammal.
• SUCKER STATE
  Illinois; -- a nickname.
• DIPTERAL
  Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.
• DIPTERA
  An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo
• LEPIDOPTERA
  An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored. Note: They have a tubular proboscis, or haustellum, formed by the two slender maxillæ.
• DIPTERAN
  An insect of the order Diptera.
• VARIOUS
  1. Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors. So many and so various laws are given. Milton. A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild. Byron. 2. Changeable; uncertain; inconstant;
• VARIOUSLY
  In various or different ways.
• SUCKER
  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. Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidæ; so
• SUCKANHOCK
  A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan.
• SUCKING
  Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. Thackeray. Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under
• LEPIDOPTERAL; LEPIDOPTEROUS
  Of or pertaining to the Lepidoptera.
• SUCKET
  A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel. Jer. Taylor.
• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• HONEYSUCKLE
  One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds;
• GOATSUCKER
  One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europæus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat
• SEERSUCKER
  A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.
• WIND-SUCKER
  The kestrel. B. Jonson. (more info) 1. A horse given to wind-sucking Law.
• TUSSUCK
  See GREW
• BOGSUCKER
  The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.
• OVARIOUS
  Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food. Thomson.
• PSEUDO-DIPTERAL
  Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column. -- n.