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Definition of Hirudinidae
1. Noun. A family of Hirudinea.
Generic synonyms: Worm Family
Group relationships: Class Hirudinea, Hirudinea
Member holonyms: Genus Hirudo, Hirudo, Genus Haemopis, Haemopis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hirudinidae
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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