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Definition: SUCTORIA |
SUCTORIANoun plural1. Same as Rhizocephala. 2. An order of Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are usually stalked. |
Etymology: Suctoria \Suc*to"ri*a\, plural noun. [New Latin expression. See Suction.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: SUCTORIA |
| English words defined with "SUCTORIA": Acinetae ♦ Suctorian ♦ Tentaculifera. (references) |
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Exogenida Endogenida Evaginogenida |
Suctoria are peculiar ciliates, which are sessile and lack cilia in the adult phase. They are found in both freshwater and marine environments, including some which live on the surface of aquatic animals, and typically feed on other ciliates. Instead of a single cytostome, each cell feeds by means of several specialized tentacles. These are supported by microtubules and phyllae, and have toxic extrusomes called haptocysts at the tip which attach to prey. Its cytoplasm is then sucked directly into a food vacuole inside the cell, where its contents are digested and absorbed. Most suctoria are around 15-30 μm in size, with a non-contractile stalk and often a lorica or shell.
Suctoria reproduce primarily by budding, producing swarmers which lack both tentacles and stalks but have cilia. They may also reproduce through conjugation, which is peculiar in involving cells of different size and often involves total fusion. The way in which buds are formed is the primary way the different orders of suctoria are distinguished. Among the Exogenida, including common genera like Podophrya and Sphaerophrya, they appear directly on the cell surface. Among the Endogenida, for instance Tokophrya and Acineta, they are formed in an internal pouch and escape through an opening, and among the Evaginogenida, they are formed in a pouch that inverts before they are released.
Once the swarmers have found a place to attach themselves, they quickly develop stalks and tentacles. The cilia are lost, but the underlying infraciliature persists throughout the entire life-cycle. This has a structure which, together with other ultrastructural similarities, places the suctoria within the class Phyllopharyngea.
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SUCTORIA": suctorial, suctorian, suctorians. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SUCTORIA" (pronounced 'Suc*to"ri*a'): Acetonuria, Acrita, Adularia, Adversaria, Albuminuria, Alcyonaria, Anisocoria, Aporia, Appendicularia, Apteria, Araucaria, Aria, Auricularia, Azoturia, Balistraria, Baria, Bipinnaria, Brachiolaria, Cafeteria, calceolaria, Calvaria, Carinaria, Cercaria, Ceria, Chyluria, Cineraria, Cnidaria, Convallaria, Curia, Dataria, Dysphoria, filaria, Fistularia, Gastrotricha, Gloria, Glucosuria, Glycosuria, hematuria, Homoeomeria, hysteria, Ichthyosauria, Krameria, Laminaria, Lemuria, Lepidosauria, Lucernaria, malaria, Memoria, Mercenaria, Mesosauria. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: carious, citrous, curiosa, sautoir, surcoat, turacos. | |
-2 letters: actors, aorist, aortic, aristo, aurist, castor, citrus, coatis, coitus, costar, courts, crista, curios, racist, ratios, rictus, rustic, satori, scoria, scotia, scrota, souari, soucar, suitor, tarocs, triacs, turaco, uratic. | |
-3 letters: actor, airts, arcus, ascot, astir, auric, auris, autos, carts, coast, coati, coats, coirs, coria, costa, court, crust. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: atrocious, fractious, ocularist, suctorial, suctorian. | |
+2 letters: acquisitor, alacritous, furcations, incubators, ocularists, rusticator, suctorians, supraoptic, ultrasonic, unactorish. | |
+3 letters: acquisitors, aeronautics, astronautic, atrociously, auctioneers, autocracies, buccinators, cafetoriums, circulators, contrarious, coruscating, coruscation, cultivators, curatorship, customarily, duplicators, elucidators, enunciators, eructations, fractiously, ichthyosaur, inculcators, inoculators, lactiferous, lubricators, obscurantic, obscuration, precautions, rubricators, rustication, rusticators, staurolitic, subcortical, subtraction, subtropical, thiouracils, truncations, ulcerations, ultrasonics, urtications. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 55 43 54 4F 52 49 41 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... ..- -.-. - --- .-. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010101 01000011 01010100 01001111 01010010 01001001 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S U C T O R I A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0055 0043 0054 004F 0052 0049 0041 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5355375449524335 |
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