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n. An animal, such as a leech, that sucks blood.

n. An extortionist or a blackmailer.

n. A person who is intrusively or overly dependent upon another; a parasite.

n. One who drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.

n. By extension, any parasite.

n. By extension, one who attempts to take as much from others as possible.

n. A vampire.

n. Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.

n. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer.

n. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner.

n. Any animal that sucks blood, as a leech, a mosquito, etc.

n. A name of a common agamoid East Indian lizard, Calotes versicolor, perhaps so called from the reddish hue of the throat, as it does not suck blood.

n. A cruel or bloodthirsty man; hence, one who sucks the blood of or preys upon another; an extortioner; a sponger.

n. carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end

"Another pest is a small midge, or sand-fly, which causes intolerable itching, and subsequent irritation, and is in this respect the most insufferable torment in Sikkim; the minutest rent in one's clothes is detected by the acute senses of this insatiable bloodsucker, which is itself so small as to be barely visible without a microscope."

annelid    annelid worm    segmented worm   

horse-leech    hirudo medicinalis    medicinal leech   

murderer    extortioner   

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