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Definition of Bloodsucking
1. Adjective. Drawing blood from the body of another. "A plague of bloodsucking insects"
2. Adjective. Of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another. "His indolent leechlike existence"
Similar to: Dependent
Derivative terms: Parasite, Parasite
Definition of Bloodsucking
1. Adjective. (context: of an animal) That draws off the blood of another animal ¹
2. Adjective. (context: by extension of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bloodsucking
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bloodsucking
Literary usage of Bloodsucking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sanitary Entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"PLANT ORGANISMS CARRIED BY bloodsucking FLIES ... Nuttall (1899) cites many early
references to the role of bloodsucking flies in the transmis- 'This ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"The book is a very thorough and a very cautious one, and covers a consideration
of the species of non-bloodsucking flies found in houses, the life history ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"bloodsucking habit; but its use appears to lie merely that of scooping out the soft
... The really bloodsucking Rats of this family belong to the genera ..."
4. Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt (1914)
"CHAPTER VI THROUGH THE HIGHLAND WILDERNESS OF WESTERN BRAZIL WE were now in the
land of the bloodsucking bats, the vampire bats that suck the blood of ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1878)
"Wherever the Turk is, the bloodsucking process goes on; and wherever the bloodsucking
process goes on, those whose blood is sucked by the Turk long, ..."
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