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Definition of Bagre

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Sucker Suck"er (s[u^]k"[~e]r), n. 1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies. 2. A suckling; a sucking animal. --Beau. & Fl. 3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. --Boyle. 4. A pipe through which anything is drawn. 5. 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. 6. (Bot.) 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. 7. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomid[ae]; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel. (b) The remora. (c) The lumpfish. (d) The hagfish, or myxine. (e) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre. 8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above. They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch. --Fuller. 9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang] 10. A greenhorn; one easily gulled. [Slang, U.S.] 11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.] Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp, Cherry, etc. Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking. Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump. Sucker tube (Zo["o]l.), one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See Spatangoid.

Meaning of Bagre from wikipedia

- Bagre may refer to: Bagre (fish), a genus of catfish Bagre, Brazil, a muni****lity in Brazil Bagré Town, a town in Burkina Faso This disambiguation page...
- species are described: Bagre bagre (Linnaeus, 1766) (coco sea catfish) Bagre marinus (Mitchill, 1815) (gafftopsail catfish) Bagre panamensis (T. N. Gill...
- Bagré may refer to: Bagré Department, commune of Boulgou Province in Burkina Faso Bagré (town), capital of the Bagré Department in Burkina Faso Bagré...
- Mapper. Google Maps - El Bagre OpenStreetMap - El Bagre OurAirports - El Bagre SkyVector - El Bagre FallingRain - El Bagre Airport Accident history for...
- El Bagre (Spanish pronunciation: [el ˈβaɣɾe]) is a town and muni****lity in the Colombian department of Antioquia. It lies at an altitude of 57 m (187...
- The Bagre Norte Fault (Spanish: Falla de Bagre Norte) is a sinistral oblique strike-slip fault in the departments of Antioquia and Bolívar in northern...
- The gafftopsail catfish (Bagre marinus) is a species of marine catfish found in the waters of the western central Atlantic Ocean, as well as the Gulf...
- Bagre Dam is a multipurpose dam on the White Volta located near Bagré Village in Burkina Faso. The Dam was constructed in 1992 at a cost of 67 million...
- the only genus classified in the subfamily Galeichthyinae and similarly Bagre is the only genus in the subfamily Bagreinae, while the rest of the genera...
- Córdoba, in the east by the muni****lities of Antioquia in Nechí and El Bagre, on the north by the muni****lity of Zaragoza, and west to the town of Cáceres...