| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| sucking lice |
Anoplura
,
order Anoplura
|
| any of various small plant-sucking insects |
aphid
|
| swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing |
bee killer
,
robber fly
|
| insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis |
bug
,
hemipteran
,
hemipteron
,
hemipterous insect
|
| very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc. |
clingfish
|
| large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies |
Diptera
,
order Diptera
|
| insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
dipteran
,
dipteron
,
dipterous insect
,
two-winged insects
|
| fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships |
Echeneididae
,
family Echeneidae
,
family Echeneididae
|
| plant-sucking bugs |
genus Lygus
,
Lygus
|
| large water bug with piercing and sucking mouthparts; feeds on young fishes |
giant water bug
|
| temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover |
hickey
,
love bite
|
| small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar |
honeycreeper
|
| primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue |
lamper eel
,
lamprey
,
lamprey eel
|
| large sap-sucking bug with leaflike expansions on the legs |
leaf-foot bug
,
leaf-footed bug
|
| any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants |
louse
,
plant louse
|
| egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing |
nit
|
| baby plastic sucking nipple |
pacifier
|
| marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects |
remora
,
suckerfish
,
sucking fish
|
| reflex consisting of head-turning and sucking movements elicited in a normal infant by gently stroking the side of the mouth or cheek |
rooting reflex
|
| act of sucking |
suck
,
sucking
,
suction
|
