单词 | medicinal leech |
释义 | > as lemmasmedicinal leech medicinal leech n. a European freshwater leech, Hirudo medicinalis, used (esp. formerly) for bloodletting. ΚΠ 1804 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 2) III. 535 The Medicinal Leech. Is usually found in stagnant ponds and ditches, and is of an olive black colour, with six yellowish lines above, and spotted with yellow beneath. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 217 The three muscular jaws..bear at their edges in the medicinal Leech about 80–90 fine chitinoid teeth. 1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) v. 51 The medicinal leech is an elongated flattened worm, from three to five inches in length. 1995 Daily Tel. 13 Dec. 13/2 Other rescue plans include stocking ponds with the medicinal leech, now down to 20 populations. < as lemmas |
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