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单词 sea-leech
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sea-leech
a. One of the aquatic blood-sucking worms belonging to the order Hirudinea: the ordinary leech used medicinally for drawing blood belongs to the genus Hirudo or Sanguisuga. (See also horse-leech n. 2, land-leech n. at land n.1 Compounds 2b(b), sea-leech, water-leech, etc.)
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Hirudinea > member of (leech)
leecha900
water leechc1350
bloodsuckera1387
lough-leech1562
loch leech1579
sanguisuge1585
censur1597
leech-worm1794
hirudinean1835
sangsuea1849
snail-leech1865
the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > leech
leech1541
sanguisuge1585
leech-worm1794
a900 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 85/11 Sanguissuge, lyces.
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 121/36 Sanguisuga, uel hirudo, læce.
a1275 Prov. Ælfred 472 in Old Eng. Misc. 131 Suket þuru is liche, so dot liche blod.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 291/2 Leche, wy(r)m of þe watur, sanguissuga.
1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 61 Evacuation by wormes, founde in waters called bloudde suckers or leaches.
1568 (a1508) W. Kennedy Flyting (Bannatyne) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 201 Lat him lay sax leichis on thy lendis.
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 154 Leeches set behind the Ears.
1794 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in Wks. (1827) XV. 351 He was driven out of it finally by the rebellion, and, as you may imagine, departed like a leech full of blood.
1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 430 The application of four leeches to each ankle.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 5 The hirudo viridis, or green leech [is well known to multiply], by longitudinal sections.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. iv. 140 There are three principal varieties of Leeches employed in France. These are—1st, the Grey Leech; 2nd, the Green Leech; 3rd, the Dragon Leech..(true English or Speckled Leech).
in extended use.1849 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (new ed.) II. viii. 261 Those female furies, aptly termed the ‘leeches of the guillotine’.Proverbial phrase.c1839 W. E. Forster in T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (1888) I. iv. 115 He [Cobden] is..likely to mistake a crotchet for a principle and stick to it like a leech.
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sea-leech
sea-leech n. a marine annelid of the genus Pontobdella.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Hirudinea > member of genus Pontobdella
sea-leecha1682
skate-suckera1832
skate-leech1882
a1682 Sir T. Browne Acct. Fishes Norfolk in Wks. (1835) IV. 334 Hirudines marini, or sea-leeches.
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 258 The Sea-Leech. The common People call this the Sea, or the Black-pudding. However, I shall call it, the Sea-leech.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 382/2 The sea-leech is distinctly mentioned by Belon, Rondelet, [etc.].
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