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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to or characteristic of the leeches.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the leeches.

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  • adjective zoology Of or relating to the leeches.

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  • resembling, or pertaining to, leeches. There is also a commercially available blood clotting factor called Hirudin, the name of which is obviously derived from this adjective.

    February 14, 2007

  • see also bdelloid

    November 5, 2007