Over the long drought, the moss leeched moisture from the stone, leaving it dry.

Leeches lined the riverbank, their slick bodies waiting for unwary hikers.

My grandmother often recounted how Leech, our family’s medieval ancestor, treated villagers with herbs and rudimentary surgery.

Before the squall hit, she tightened the leech line to stop the triangular mainsail from fluttering.

In the old anatomical atlas, the leech-finger was identified as the digit adjacent to the little finger.

A turtle leech clung to the underside of the pond turtle, slowly feeding through the softer margins of its shell.

The veterinarian carefully removed the turtle leeches from the injured sea turtle's shell.

The village elders warned travelers to avoid the marsh, saying it was infested with land-leeches.

During our hike through the rainforest, we were startled when a land-leech latched onto my boot.

The biologist carefully observed a water-leech clinging to the underside of the pond plant.