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sanguisuges

sanguisuges is the plural of sanguisuge.

Meaning of sanguisuge

Noun

sanguisuge (plural sanguisuges)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A leech (blood-sucking annelid).
    • For that blody judge
      And mighty sanguisuge,
      The Pope that is so huge,
      Is ever ther refuge;a. 1529?, John Skelton [attributed], “The Image of Ipocrysy”, in The Political Works of Skelton and Donne, published 1879, page 408

Questions about sanguisuges

What is sanguisuges the plural of?
Sanguisuges is the plural of sanguisuge.

Words near sanguisuges in the dictionary

  1. sanguinous
  2. sanguinously
  3. sanguisorbic acid
  4. sanguisuge
  5. sanguisugent
  6. sanguisuges
  7. sanguisugous
  8. sanguivolent
  9. sanguivore
  10. sanguivores
  11. sanguivorous

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