Translingual

Hirudo medicinalis

Proper noun

Hirudo f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Hirudinidae – principally one species of leech used for medical purposes.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Animalia - kingdom, Annelida - phylum, Clitellata - class, Hirudinea - subclass, Euhirudinea - infraclass, Arhynchobdellida - order, Hirudiniformes - suborder, Hirudinidae - family, Hirudinariinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Hirudo medicinalis - type species; for other species see Hirudo at National Center for Biotechnology Information.

Latin

Noun

hirūdō f ‎(genitive hirūdinis); third declension

1. A leech.

Inflection

Third declension.

Synonyms

• (leech): sanguisūga

Descendants

• English: hirudin, hirudinoid
• Translingual: Hirudinea

References

• hirudo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hirudo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• HIRUDO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “hirudo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.