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Definition of Leechlike
1. 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 Leechlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a leech or some aspect of one; clinging, parasitic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leechlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leechlike
Literary usage of Leechlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the by Frank Brinkley, Dairoku Kikuchi (1915)
"It is related that the first effort of procreation was not successful, the outcome
being a leechlike abortion and an island of foam, the former of which was ..."
2. The Making of Modern England by Gilbert Slater (1913)
"... without a blow,— A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field,— Rulers
who neither see nor feel nor know, But leechlike to their fainting country ..."
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