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BLOODSUCKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bloodsucker mean?
• BLOODSUCKER (noun)
The noun BLOODSUCKER has 1 sense:
1. carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
Familiarity information: BLOODSUCKER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
bloodsucker; hirudinean; leech
Hypernyms ("bloodsucker" is a kind of...):
annelid; annelid worm; segmented worm (worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bloodsucker"):
Hirudo medicinalis; medicinal leech (large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodletting)
horseleech (any of several large freshwater leeches)
Holonyms ("bloodsucker" is a member of...):
class Hirudinea; Hirudinea (hermaphroditic aquatic or terrestrial or parasitic annelids)
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