sanguivorous

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I'm not sure what kind of chemistry is involved to make it work, for all I know there's some kind of magic pixie dust that wards off sanguivorous creepies.

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  1. Feeding on blood; sanguisugent, as a bat: specifically noting the true vampires or blood-sucking bats. Also sanguinivorous. Vampyrus spectrum, L., a large bat inhabiting Brazil, of sufficiently forbidding aspect, which was long considered by naturalists to be thoroughly sanguivorous in its habits. Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 52.

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  • I'm not sure what kind of chemistry is involved to make it work, for all I know there's some kind of magic pixie dust that wards off sanguivorous creepies. —  Three O'Clock in the Morning
 

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