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Acetabulum
noun · 78% connection
The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Agrostis
noun · 78% connection
A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Annelida
n. pl. · 78% connection
A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal su…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Annulata
n. pl. · 78% connection
A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Apis
noun · 78% connection
A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Apoda
noun · 78% connection
A group of worms without appendages, as the leech.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Artemisia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Asclepias
noun · 78% connection
A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Avena
noun · 78% connection
A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Bdelloidea
n. pl. · 78% connection
The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Beef
noun · 78% connection
An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Birthwort
noun · 78% connection
A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Bloodletting
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesect…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Bloodsucker
noun · 78% connection
Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Bowline
noun · 78% connection
A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Brail
noun · 78% connection
Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Calendula
noun · 78% connection
any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers; often used for medic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
Cinchona
noun · 78% connection
A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a med…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, leeches, including, common, medicinal.
