The hagfish, or myxine.

A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely
allied to the kingfish (a); – called also bagre.

A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string
attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed
upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason
of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a
considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; – used by
children as a plaything.

The lumpfish.

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.

A pipe through which anything is drawn.

A suckling; a sucking animal.

One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by
which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other
bodies.

The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a
pump basket.

The remora.