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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

- Bagré may refer to: Bagré Department, commune of Boulgou Province in Burkina Faso Bagré (town), capital of the Bagré Department in Burkina Faso Bagré...
- species are described: Bagre bagre (Linnaeus, 1766) (coco sea catfish) Bagre marinus (Mitchill, 1815) (gafftopsail catfish) Bagre panamensis (T. N. Gill...
- 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...
- 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...
- lake close to the village of Bagré. the Bagré lake the beach of Bagré tourist center and lodge of Bagré Bagré (or Bagré-Village) (4 993 inhabitants) (capital)...
- Bagre Dam is a multipurpose dam on the White Volta located near Bagré Village in Burkina Faso. The Dam constructed in 1992 at a cost of 67 million CFA...
- Bagré (or Bagré-Village) is a village and seat of the Bagré Department of Boulgou Province in south-eastern Burkina Faso. As of 2012, the village has...
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- 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 coco sea catfish (Bagre bagre) is a species of sea catfish in the family Ariidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1776, originally under the...