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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Relating to or characteristic of the leeches.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to the leeches.

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  • sionnach see also bdelloid Nov 5, 2007

  • sionnach resembling, or pertaining to, leeches. There is also a commercially available blood clotting factor called Hirudin, the name of which is obviously derived from this adjective. Feb 14, 2007

‘hirudine’ has been looked up 407 times, added to 5 lists, commented on 2 times, and is not a valid Scrabble word.