Hirudo medicinalis

Thesaurus

Noun

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Hirudo medicinalis - large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodlettingmedicinal leechbloodsucker, hirudinean, leech - carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each endgenus Hirudo, Hirudo - type genus of the family Hirudinidae