单词 | sea-leech |
释义 | > as lemmassea-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.) ΘΚΠ 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). sea-leech sea-leech n. a marine annelid of the genus Pontobdella. ΘΚΠ 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.]. < as lemmas |
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