Definition of Hirudinidae

1. Noun. A family of Hirudinea.

Exact synonyms: Family Hirudinidae
Generic synonyms: Worm Family
Group relationships: Class Hirudinea, Hirudinea
Member holonyms: Genus Hirudo, Hirudo, Genus Haemopis, Haemopis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hirudinidae

Hiri Motu
Hirohito
Hiroshima
Hiroshiman
Hiroshimans
Hirsch-Peiffer stain
Hirschberg
Hirschberg's method
Hirschfeld
Hirschfeld's canals
Hirschhorn
Hirschman
Hirschowitz syndrome
Hirschsprung
Hirudinidae (current term)
Hirudo medicinalis
Hirundinidae
Hirundo nigricans
Hirundo pyrrhonota
Hirundo rustica
His
His' band
His' copula
His' line
His' perivascular space
His' spindle
His-Tawara system
His Holiness

Literary usage of Hirudinidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"Among the Hirudinidae a more definite act of copulation and reciprocal fertilization takes place during which the filamentous penis of one individual ..."

2. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"... it was the second and third rings that underwent division, while the first remained undivided. In the Hirudinidae, then, we have supplemented ..."

3. Animal Parasites and Messmates by Beneden (Pierre Joseph) (1885)
"Gay discovered in Chili one of the Hirudinidae in the pulmonary sac of an Auricula ... Together with the Hirudinidae, we find very small worms, transparent, ..."

4. Human Histology in Its Relations to Descriptive Anatomy, Physiology, and by Edmund Randolph Peaslee (1857)
"... as in many muscles of the Hirudinidae. This form is found in the tongue pharynx, sphincter ani, &c., of fishes even. These tubes contain a fluid in ..."

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