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sucker science definition
- A part by which an animal sucks blood from or uses suction to cling to another animal. Leeches and remoras have suckers.
- A shoot growing from the base or root of a tree or shrub and giving rise to a new plant, a clone of the plant from which it comes. The growth of suckers is a form of asexual reproduction.
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