Suctorially

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a suctorial manner.

    "As far as I am aware, this is the only group of animals feeding suctorially on algae and presumably digesting or rejecting the non-chloroplast fraction of the cytoplasm but retaining the chloroplasts in an intact and active state in the digestive diverticula."

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"As far as I am aware, this is the only group of animals feeding suctorially on algae and presumably digesting or rejecting the non-chloroplast fraction of the cytoplasm but retaining the chloroplasts in an intact and active state in the digestive diverticula."

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