Maschile

sanguessuga

Senso (Inglese)

leech (aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea)

Concetti

Hirudinea

hirudina

Hirudo medicinalis

sangueta

parasita

sinonimi

Hirudinea

hirudina

Frequenza

23k
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˌsɐ̃.ɡiˈsu.ɡɐ/
Etimologia (Inglese)

Learned borrowing from Latin sanguisūga (literally “bloodsucker”), from sanguis (“blood”) + sūgō (“suck”). Displaced inherited samessuga, still used dialectally in Portugal.

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