(of an animal) That draws off the blood of another animal.
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Bloodsucking Sentence Examples
These insects are bloodsucking, which means they can bite and feed on you and your family during sleep.
Her lightheadedness was gone and she was grateful his bloodsucking was pain free.
The recent discovery of a bloodsucking maggot, which is found in native huts throughout the greater part of tropical and subtropical Africa, and attacks the inmates when asleep, is of great interest.
In many bloodsucking flies, for example, the galea is absent, while the lacinia becomes a strong knife-like piercer and the palp is well developed.
The proboscis of tsetse-flies is without the paired piercing stilets (mandibles and maxillae) possessed by other bloodsucking Diptera, such as the female horse-flies and mosquitoes.