Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A marine suctorial annelid of the genus Pontobdella. Also called
skate-sucker .
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Examples
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At the same time, he made known that the small black body which until that time had been mistaken for the young state of a species of seaweed, was in reality the egg of _Pontobdella muricata_, a sort of sea-leech.
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The bare-legged travellers in Ceylon are said to be much infested by leeches; and the sea-leech, hirudo muricata, is said to adhere to fish, and the remora is said to adhere to ships in such numbers as to retard their progress.
Note V 1803
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The bare-legged travellers in Ceylon are said to be much infested by leeches; and the sea-leech, hirudo muricata, is said to adhere to fish, and the remora is said to adhere to ships in such numbers as to retard their progress.
The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Erasmus Darwin 1766
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