"suck" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Myrmecodia uses its lenticular warts to suck nutrients from the insects thrown out by the ants.
- It was not a pretty plant, but it did have an admirable functionality, with spidery tendrils hooked onto other pieces of weed to form the impenetrable mat that sucked nutrients from the ocean.
- Grubs hatch from eggs laid on the edges of leaves and burrow into the leaf to suck nutrients, the tree's own latex shielding the insect.
- You might as well suck nutrients from a tube.
- THIS WEEK Removing Weeds, Staking Tomatoes Pull weeds, which will suck moisture and nutrients from garden plants.
- A proboscis allows them to suck nutrients from soft-bodied invertebrates, and their digestive tract has diverticula extending into the legs.
- Once these spores or conidia germinate, they produce a structure called a haustoria, capable of "sucking" nutrients from the plant cells directly under the epidermis of the leaf.
- The enzyme, cutinase, is present in nature, made by parasites to eat through the shiny surfaces of tree leaves, so the parasite can suck nutrients out of the inner parts.
- The floaters opened cavernous maws and sucked the minerals and nutrients that were suspended in the gas giant's atmosphere into stomachs the size of a nacelle on a starship.
- Now that sounds like a reasonable idea, but Norway maples are notorious for sucking all the moisture and nutrients from anything except poison ivy.
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