[suhk-tawr-ee-uh
n, -tohr-] 
| 1. | a suctorial animal. |
| 2. | a protozoan of the class or order Suctoria, which live, as adults, attached by a stalk to the substrate and feed by means of long, suctorial tentacles. |
| 3. | belonging or pertaining to the Suctoria. |
| suc·to·ri·an (sŭk-tôr'ē-ən, -tōr'-) n. A protozoan of the class Suctoria, having in its immature form a small round ciliated body but in its adult form being stalked and sessile, lacking cilia, and feeding by means of suctorial tentacles. [From New Latin Sūctōria, class name, from neuter pl. of sūctōrius, suctorial; see suctorial.] |