Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to or characteristic of the leeches.
Wiktionary
- adj. zoology Of or relating to the leeches.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the leeches.
Examples
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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