suctorial

1. 1.

   adapted for sucking or clinging by suction

Questions about suctorial

What does suctorial mean?

suctorial means "adapted for sucking or clinging by suction".

How many syllables are in suctorial?

suctorial has 4 syllables and divides as suc-to-ri-al under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is suctorial a common word?

suctorial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.