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bn:00011412n

Noun Concept

Categories: Clitellata, long volume value, Articles with short description, Articles with 'species' microformats, Extant Silurian first appearances

leech bloodsucker hirudinean Bdellatomy External hirudiniasis

Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end WordNet 3.0

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Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory worms that comprise the subclass Hirudinea within the phylum Annelida. Wikipedia

Subclass of worms Wikidata

An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore. Wiktionary

Animal that drinks the blood of others. Wiktionary (translation)

Any leech of the subclass Hirudinea. Wiktionary

An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis. Wiktionary

Annelid. Wiktionary (translation)

IS A

PART OF

HAS KIND

Haementeria ghilianii

+4 relations

AWARD RECEIVED

invertébré de l'année

DERIVATION

bleed

DESCRIBED BY SOURCE

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language

Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China

PARENT TAXON

Clitellata

TAXON RANK

subclass

WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

leech, bloodsucker, hirudinean

Wikipedia

leech

Wikidata

leech

Wiktionary

bloodsucker, hirudinean, leech

Wikipedia Redirections

Bdellatomy, External hirudiniasis, Hirudena, Hirudiniasis, Hirudinida, Leech infestation, leeches, leeching (medical)

Wikidata Alias

Hirudinea, leeches