Earthworm vs. Leech

Earthwormnoun

A worm that lives in the ground.

Earthwormnoun

A worm of the family Lumbricidae, or, more generally, of the suborder Lumbricina.

Earthwormnoun

(figurative) A contemptible person; a groveller.

Earthwormnoun

Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; - called also angleworm and dewworm.

Earthwormnoun

A mean, sordid person; a niggard.

Earthwormnoun

terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers

Earthworm

An earthworm is a terrestrial invertebrate that belongs to the phylum Annelida. They exhibit a tube-within-a-tube body plan, are externally segmented with corresponding internal segmentation, and usually have setae on all segments.

Leechnoun

An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.

Leechnoun

(figuratively) A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.

Leechnoun

A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.

Leechnoun

(archaic) A physician.

Leechnoun

A healer.

Leechnoun

(nautical) The vertical edge of a square sail.

Leechnoun

(nautical) The aft edge of a triangular sail.

Leechverb

(transitive) To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.

Leechverb

(transitive) To drain (resources) without giving back.

Leechverb

To treat, cure or heal.

Leechnoun

See 2d Leach.

Leechnoun

The border or edge at the side of a sail.

Leechnoun

A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.

Leechnoun

Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.

Leechnoun

A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.

Leechverb

See Leach, v. t.

Leechverb

To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.

Leechverb

To bleed by the use of leeches.

Leechnoun

carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end

Leechnoun

a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

Leechverb

draw blood;

Leech

Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory worms that comprise the subclass Hirudinea within the phylum Annelida. They are closely related to the oligochaetes, which include the earthworm, and like them have soft, muscular, segmented bodies that can lengthen and contract.