Definition of hirudo
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LNS
hirūdō, hirūdinis
hirudo
noun (f., 3rd declension)
  1. a leech, blood-sucker
Abbreviations
hirūdo, inis, f. (also called sanguisūga), a leech, blood-sucker, Plin. 32, 10, 42, ยง 122: ego me convortam in hirudinem atque exsugebo sanguinem, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 4.

—Fig., of any thing that exhausts, etc.: aerarii, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 11: non missura cutem, nisi plena cruoris, hirudo, Hor. A. P. 476.
 
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