hirudo medicinalis

English Thesaurus

1. large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodletting (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	bloodsucker, hirudinean, leech,
definition	:	carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus hirudo, hirudo,
definition	:	type genus of the family Hirudinidae (noun.animal)