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Antrostomus vociferus
Whip-poor-will Whip"-poor-will`, n. (Zo["o]l.) An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker; -- so called in imitation of the peculiar notes which it utters in the evening. [Written also whippowil.]
Catostomus Commersoni
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.
Lagostomus trichodactylus
Viscacha Vis*ca"cha, Viz-cacha Viz-ca"cha, n. [Sp.] (Zo["o]l.) A large burrowing South American rodent (Lagostomus trichodactylus) allied to the chinchillas, but much larger. Its fur is soft and rather long, mottled gray above, white or yellowish white beneath. There is a white band across the muzzle, and a dark band on each cheek. It inhabits grassy plains, and is noted for its extensive burrows and for heaping up miscellaneous articles at the mouth of its burrows. Called also biscacha, bizcacha, vischacha, vishatscha.
Liostomus xanthurus
Lafayette La`fa`yette", n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The dollar fish. (b) A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.
Ptilostomus Senegalensis
Piapec Pi"a*pec, n. [Cf. Pie a magpie.] (Zo["o]l.) A West African pie (Ptilostomus Senegalensis).

Meaning of Stomus from wikipedia

- ("curved granule"); Streptospondylus ("curved vertebrae") -stoma, -stome, -stomus: Pronunciation: /stoʊma/, /stoʊm/, /stoʊməs/. Origin: Ancient Gr**** στόμα...
- Stomu Yamashta (or Yamash'ta), born Tsutomu Yama****a (山下勉, Yama****a Tsutomu, 15 March 1947), is a ****anese percussionist, keyboardist and composer....
- Nannostomus beckfordi, (from the Gr****: nanos = small, and the Latin stomus = relating to the mouth; beckfordi = in honor of British naturalist, F.J.B...
- Stomu Takeishi (born 1964, in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture) is a ****anese experimental and jazz b****ist. He is known for playing fretless five-string electric...
- Patrick Thrall is an American rock guitarist. Thrall has worked with former Deep Purple b****ist Glenn Hughes on the Hughes/Thrall project. New Day (guitar...
- CDs. 2016 The Man Who Fell to Earth Soundtrack UMC Score produced with Stomu Yamashta and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Unreleased until the 40th...
- John Peter Robinson (born 16 September 1945) is an English composer, musician, and arranger known for his film and television scores. Robinson studied...
- provided vocals and keyboards on Go, a concept album by ****anese composer Stomu Yamashta. That same year, Winwood also pla**** guitar on the Fania All Stars'...
- Nannostomus (from the Gr**** nanos = small, and the Latin stomus = relating to the mouth) is a genus of fish belonging to the characin family Lebiasinidae...
- genus name Prorastomus comes from Gr**** prora meaning "prow" and Latin stomus meaning "mouth." In 1892, naturalist Richard Lydekker respelled it as Prorastoma...