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Definition of Bloodsucker
1. Noun. Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.
Generic synonyms: Annelid, Annelid Worm, Segmented Worm
Group relationships: Class Hirudinea, Hirudinea
Specialized synonyms: Hirudo Medicinalis, Medicinal Leech, Horseleech
Derivative terms: Leech
Definition of Bloodsucker
1. n. Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.
Definition of Bloodsucker
1. Noun. One who drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore. ¹
2. Noun. By extension, any parasite. ¹
3. Noun. By extension, one who attempts to take as much from others as possible. ¹
4. Noun. A vampire. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bloodsucker
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bloodsucker
Literary usage of Bloodsucker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1876)
"At last it took such hold of me that I became a regular bloodsucker—a bloodsucker
of poor folk, and nothing else. I was always reckoning up, night and day, ..."
2. The Dravidian Nights Entertainments: Being a Translation of Madanakamarajankadai by S. M. Natesa Sastri (1886)
"The tiger-king again made his appearance, and writing a couple of lines in a palm
leaf, rolled it and tied the note to the neck of a bloodsucker who ..."
3. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1878)
"But to demand money from the bloodsucker was simply to set him on a new course
of bloodsucking. The only way in which the Turk can pay anything must be ..."
4. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
""Another description of lizard is here vulgarly called the ' bloodsucker. ...
Why the popular name of ' bloodsucker' should be so universally given to this ..."
5. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1888)
"So also has the familiar bloodsucker (Calotes versicolor, Dana). This is odd, as
in his scarlet war paint the bloodsucker is one of the most formidable ..."
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