a. rare. [f. L. sūgĕre to suck + -ESCENT.] Misused for: Pertaining to or adapted for sucking.
1802. Paley, Nat. Theol., xviii. 340. The sugescent parts of animals.
1844. Plummer, in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts, XLVI. 243. The pig [appeare] to be master of the sugescent art.
