ಜಳೂಕ

ಅಲರ್ ನಿಘಂಟು (ವಿ. ಕೃಷ್ಣ)

1. 1.
   noun

   any of annelid, bloodsucking worms of the subclass Hirudinea, living in water or wet earth and having a well-developed sucker at each end, and one species of which (Hirudo medicinalis) has been used in medicine, esp. in former times, to bleed patients; a leech.