Leeches Definition

Leeches Sentence Examples

• All leeches are very extensile and can contract the body to a plump, pear-shaped form, or extend it to a long and worm-like shape.

• Small leeches taken into the mouth with drinking-water may give rise to serious symptoms by attaching themselves to the fauces and neighbouring parts and thence sucking blood.

• The rivers and lakes yield enormous quantities of fish, and leeches also are plentiful.

• Leeches are usually olive green to brown in colour, darker patches and spots being scattered over a paler ground.

• Earthworms, leeches, lugworms and marine worms bryozoans Bryozoans look like plants but actually consist of thousands of tiny animals.