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HORSELEECH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does horseleech mean?
• HORSELEECH (noun)
The noun HORSELEECH has 1 sense:
1. any of several large freshwater leeches
Familiarity information: HORSELEECH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several large freshwater leeches
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("horseleech" is a kind of...):
bloodsucker; hirudinean; leech (carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end)
Holonyms ("horseleech" is a member of...):
genus Haemopis; Haemopis (leeches)
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