hirudine

English

Etymology

Latin hirūdō (“leech”)

Adjective

hirudine (comparative more hirudine, superlative most hirudine)

1. (zoology) Of or relating to the leeches.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hirudine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) hirūdine

1. ablative singular of hirūdō