leech
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- noun
- /liːtʃ/
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sanguijuela
- It sticks to you like a leech and sucks your blood dry.
- blood-sucking leech
- sucking leech
- leech blood
I like watching, you know, I have a colleague who's like all into leeches, right?
- I like watching, you know, I have a colleague who's like all into leeches, right?
- And Mike and Alex found this woman that supposedly has leeches for sale in her home and they're on their way there right now.
- You've got, you know, insects that are just sucking blood out of here and you know, you're waking up with leeches on your lips and it's just hard living.
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I've seen grown men cry like a baby when they find a leech sucking away.
Blog text (13) -
Brought the world's biggest leech with him.
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A giant leech got me.
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My sister and this leech!
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The leech released its grip.
Fiction book (1991) -
The most abundant of these is Placobdella parasitica, the blood-sucking leech.
Academic text (1992) -
Once a fortnight in the mild seasons, I bathe there, too, and if I raise my leg to see the kiss of a black leech or feel a water snake circle my ankle, I do not shriek the way I would have as a child; I do not flounder and splash and make the birds cock their heads toward my voice.
Fiction book (1999) -
While swimming in the lake, I noticed a leech clinging to my leg, drawing blood.
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During our hike, I had to carefully detach a leech that had attached itself to my skin.
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The biologist explained how the leech uses its suckers to latch onto fish and other animals.
Synonyms
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A small soft animal without legs that lives in soil or water
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An animal that drinks the blood of other animals, like a mosquito
A worm like a leech that lives in water or on land and drinks blood
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Etymology
Leech for the small worm goes back to Old English and is tied to old medicine, because people used these animals to 'draw blood'. So the creature is remembered as a 'blood-sucker' that doctors once used.