Word Meanings - SUCKFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sucker fish.

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• SUCKER STATE
  Illinois; -- a nickname.
• 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
• 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
• 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  A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar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.
• BOGSUCKER
  The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.
• ROCKSUCKER
  A lamprey.
• HONEYSUCKER
  See HONEY
• LUMPSUCKER
  The lumprish.
• MUDSUCKER
  A woodcock.