MEDICINAL LEECH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medicinal leech mean? 

• MEDICINAL LEECH (noun)
  The noun MEDICINAL LEECH has 1 sense:

1. large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodletting

  Familiarity information: MEDICINAL LEECH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICINAL LEECH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodletting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Hirudo medicinalis; medicinal leech

Hypernyms ("medicinal leech" is a kind of...):

bloodsucker; hirudinean; leech (carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end)

Holonyms ("medicinal leech" is a member of...):

genus Hirudo; Hirudo (type genus of the family Hirudinidae)