(n.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.
(n.) One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer.
(n.) A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner.
Example Sentences:
(1) This, and the fact that BLV-infected lymphocytes were recovered from tabanids allowed to feed on a BLV-positive cow, supports the idea that bloodsucking insects play a major role in the spread of BLV.
(2) The parasitic nematodes Romanomermis culicivorax and R. iyengari, were evaluated as a means of bloodsucking mosquito larvae control in Apsheron Peninsula (the city of Baku) and Lenkoran Lowland (Masally District) in Azerbaijan.
(3) The ultrastructure of Malpighian tubes of 5 species of bloodsucking Diptera was studied: Culicoides pulicaris, Tabanus bromius, Hybomitra schineri, Haematopota pluvialis and Stomoxys calcitrans.
(4) Data on fauna of bloodsucking mosquitos (Culicidae), obtained during the survey in the irrigated part of Takhta-Kupyr District of Kara-Kalpakia in 1988-1989, are presented.
(5) The paper presents data on the specific composition and abundance of bloodsucking arthropods parasitic on small mammals and birds in the valley of the Kamchatka river.
(6) The fleas of this species can be infected, form the block of proventriculus within 4 to 35 days, transmit the agent during bloodsucking to healthy animals and cause the death both white mice and guinea pigs.
(7) Poor Putin is trying to fight these bloodsucking bureaucrats, but he can’t clean up everything on his own.” Save for limited online discussion among the politically active classes – one video compares the $2bn (£1.4bn) that passed through a company controlled by Putin’s friend, the cellist Sergei Roldugin, to state spending on healthcare, roads and pensions – for the most part the leaks have passed by with little fanfare.
(8) The perspective of the use of various control methods, first of all those tested under field conditions in application for bloodsuckers which are of medical importance throughout the USSR, is regarded.
(9) A new method is suggested for studying actual fecundity in bloodsucking midges of the genus Culicoides.
(10) The knowledge accumulated in the course of studies of bloodsucking dipterans: mosquitoes, horseflies, Heleidae, midges in the Urals and the adjacent territories is reviewed.
(11) Newspaper advertisements reveal that these bloodsuckers were extensively used for many decades.
(12) Results of the 2-year studies of fauna and habitats of the bloodsucking mosquitoes Eretmapodites, Mansonia, Mimomyia, Malaya, Uranotaenia, Toxorhynchites performed in the southwest of the Republic of Guinea in 1982-1983 are presented.
(13) Autogeneity, nectarophagy and aphagia are homologous phenomena which reflect the loss of an animal component of food or both components at the level of non-specialized saprophagy rather than secondary loss of bloodsucking.
(14) Data on the infection of birds with Leucocytozoon were suggested to be used for investigation of the structure of hosts' populations in the regions isolated by ecological barriers where breeding places of bloodsucking flies (Simuliidae) are absent.
(15) Comparative analysis of fine structure of distant sensilla in bloodsucking insects, ticks and mites made it possible to show, that blood-sucking gamasids and ticks possess similar number of homologous sensillar types, that formed on a common ground as the specific adaptation to blood-sucking.
(16) In the females of bloodsucking mosquitoes of the genus Aedes there was recognised a secretory activity of the cells of the external wall of the cardial portion of the intestine.
(17) High street solicitors will close down and the British justice system will be handed over to corporate bloodsuckers," Hayes said.
(18) The virus quantity in the fluid saliva, excreted by I. persulcatus females and measured during different periods of bloodsucking (at least during the first three days), increases 10 to 100 times in comparison with a comparable volume of hungry ones.
(19) The present work reports the discovery and characterization of an anticoagulant protein in the salivary gland of the giant bloodsucking leech, H. ghilianii, which is a specific and potent inhibitor of coagulation factor Xa.
(20) The date of the beginning of mating behaviour in males and females, the rate of insemination and the increasing of bloodsucking activity of females were studied in natural environments.