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bdellatomy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
bdel-lato-my
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The snipping off the tail of a leech engaged in sucking human blood, in order to let the blood run out of it and so increase its powers of drawing blood.

Archaic; Uncountable

Etymology

Irregularly formed as Ancient Greek βδέλλᾰ (bdéllă, “leech”) + -tomy (from -τομία (-tomía, “a cutting”); from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”); the etymological spelling is bdellotomy.

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What does bdellatomy mean?
The snipping off the tail of a leech engaged in sucking human blood, in order to let the blood run out of it and so increase its powers of drawing blood.
Where does bdellatomy come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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