2. Verb. (third-person singular of leech) ¹
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Definition of Leeches
1. leech [v] - See also: leech
Medical Definition of Leeches
1. Annelids of the class hirudinea, especially hirudo medicinalis. Some species, the bloodsuckers, may become temporarily parasitic upon animals, including man. Leeches were formerly used extensively for drawing blood. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leeches
Literary usage of Leeches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"1, 1906) the leeches proved very voracious and troublesome. ... A good many fish-
leeches were obtained from various fishes during the summer of 1906, ..."
2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1853)
"Pigs devour leeches. On the edge of a pond, in which I had some ... Un the same
day, I threw some leeches to the pigs, who devoured them with that ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1896)
"The leeches are distinguished as a rule by the possession of two suckers, ...
376) agree with the leeches in their parasitism, in their general shape, ..."
4. American Druggist (1891)
"The leeches of Southern Europe and of Africa are not so large, but they form ...
Australia is said to abound in leeches, and to furnish a very considerable ..."
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