Usually means: Predatory, sessile ciliates; attach, consume.
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  9. suctorian: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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▸ noun:  A protist of the subclass Suctoria in the class Phyllopharyngea; a predatory sessile ciliate.

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siphonostome, symbiontid, stichotrich, diphyozooid, sertularian, cytopharynx, phyllidium, gullet, stichotrichine, cycliophoran, more...

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siphonostome, symbiontid, stichotrich, diphyozooid, sertularian, cytopharynx, phyllidium, gullet, stichotrichine, cycliophoran, more...



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