| 单词 | water leech |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater leech water leech n. an aquatic leech (see leech n.2 a); cf. land-leech n. at land n.1 Compounds 2b(b). 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 c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 13* So drawith blode the waturleche [Fr. sangsue]..As the ventuser of rawe flesch. a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 176 His shon or slyppers [to be] as browne as is þe waturleche. 1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon i. vi. 25 But besides these, there are Water Leaches the same with ours. 1837 Q. Rev. July 161 Pickler..speculates on water-leeches which get into people's stomachs and kill them. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. vi. 112 Earthworms and lob-worms, land-leeches and water-leeches, ribbon-worms.., and many more besides, are all ‘worms’. 2007 Salon.com (Nexis) 7 Sept. Unlike with water leeches, people don't immediately realize they've been bitten [by land leeches]. < as lemmas |
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