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Erimyzon sucetta
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.
Erimyzon sucetta
Chub Chub, n. [This word seems to signify a large or thick fish. Cf. Sw. kubb a short and thick piece of wood, and perh. F. chabot chub.] (Zo["o]l.) A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinid[ae] or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc. Chub mackerel (Zo["o]l.), a species of mackerel (Scomber colias) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; -- called also bull mackerel, thimble-eye, and big-eye mackerel. Chub sucker (Zo["o]l.), a fresh-water fish of the United States (Erimyzon sucetta); -- called also creekfish.

Meaning of Erimyzon from wikipedia

- Erimyzon is a genus of suckers native to North America. There are currently four recognized species in this genus. Erimyzon claviformis (Girard, 1856)...
- chubsucker (Erimyzon oblongus) is a freshwater fish of the sucker family (Catostomidae). The cr**** chubsucker is one of three species in the genus Erimyzon from...
- The lake chubsucker (Erimyzon sucetta) is a species of freshwater fish endemic to North America, found in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River basin...
- (Luxilus cornutus) Cr**** chub (Semotilus atromaculatus) Cr**** chubsucker (Erimyzon oblongus) Creole darter (Etheostoma collettei) Crystal darter (Crystallaria...
- (D. petenense), blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis), cr**** chubsucker (Erimyzon oblongus) and white sucker (Catostomus commersonii). Striped b**** (Morone...
- commersonii) O,N,P,J Blue sucker (Cycleptus elongatus) O, rare Cr**** chubsucker (Erimyzon oblongus) P Northern hogsucker (Hypentelium nigricans) O,N,P,J Smallmouth...
- Blue sucker (Cycleptus elongatus) Cr**** chubsucker (Erimyzon oblongus) Lake chubsucker (Erimyzon sucetta) Alabama hogsucker (Hypentelium etowanum) Northern...
- (Catostomus catostomus) White sucker (Catostomus commersoni) Cr**** chubsucker (Erimyzon oblongus) Northern hogsucker (Hypentelium nigricans) Golden redhorse (Moxostoma...
- Genus Chasmistes D. S. Jordan, 1878 Genus Deltistes Seale, 1896 Genus Erimyzon D. S. Jordan, 1876 Genus Hypentelium Rafinesque, 1818 Genus Minytrema D...
- Enneacanthus obesus Centrarchidae demersal 3.0 native Erimyzon oblongus Catostomidae demersal 2.8 native Erimyzon sucetta Catostomidae demersal 2.8 native Esox...