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leech

English

  1. 🔊 carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
  2. 🔊 a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
  3. 🔊 draw blood
    “In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 hirudíneo leech

Similar words

bloodsucker hirudinean parasite sponge sponger bleed phlebotomize phlebotomise chilopoda chordata doctor of medicine echiuroidea ectoprocta entoprocta gp md monoplacophora nemertinea phoronidea adherent adhesive allopath allopathist attending physician