"horse-leech" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: horse-leeches [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English horseleche, horse leche (“horse doctor; bloodsucker, leech”), equivalent to horse + leech. So called because it commonly attacks the membrane that lines the inside of the mouth and nostrils of animals, such as horses, that drink at pools where it lives. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|horseleche}} Middle English horseleche, {{m|enm|horse leche|t=horse doctor; bloodsucker, leech}} horse leche (“horse doctor; bloodsucker, leech”), {{af|en|horse|leech}} horse + leech Head templates: {{en-noun}} horse-leech (plural horse-leeches)
  1. (obsolete) A veterinarian for horses. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-horse-leech-en-noun-dS0SwdeJ
  2. A type of sucking worm, Haemopis sanguisuga, larger than the common leech. Categories (lifeform): Annelids Related terms: horse-leechery Translations (Haemopis sanguisuga): 馬蛭 (Chinese Mandarin), 马蛭 (mǎzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), pijavka koňská (Czech), hobukaan (Estonian), hevosjuotikas (Finnish), Pferdeegel [masculine] (German), עֲלוּקָה ('aluká) [feminine] (Hebrew), lópióca (Hungarian), súmaire [masculine] (Irish), ウマヒル (umahiru) (Japanese), 말거머리 (malgeomeori) (Korean), hesteigle (Norwegian), اشك سولوكی (eşek sülüğü) (Ottoman Turkish), pijawka końska (Polish), ко́нская пия́вка (kónskaja pijávka) [feminine] (Russian), hästigel (Swedish), đỉa trâu (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-horse-leech-en-noun-G9CxXtyc Disambiguation of Annelids: 18 82 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 76 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 76 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 22 78 Disambiguation of 'Haemopis sanguisuga': 0 100

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