hirudinean
English Thesaurus
1. carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | annelid, annelid worm, segmented worm, |
| definition | : | worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | hirudo medicinalis, medicinal leech, |
| definition | : | large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodletting (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | horseleech, |
| definition | : | any of several large freshwater leeches (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | class hirudinea, hirudinea, |
| definition | : | hermaphroditic aquatic or terrestrial or parasitic annelids (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | bleed, leech, phlebotomise, phlebotomize, |
| definition | : | draw blood (verb.body) |
| derivation | : | bleed, leech, phlebotomise, phlebotomize, |
| definition | : | draw blood (verb.body) |
Visual ArtiKata
Explore hirudinean in ArtiKata.com >