- Blood sucking being - Bloodsucker - Bloodsucking monster - Fanged monster - he hate garlic - Ma, viper is changing into Dracula! - A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person
superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by
night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death.
This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was
especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.
- Biting insect - Blood-sucking insect - Malaria carrier - Tropical pest in Samos, Quito etc - Tropical pest in Samos, Quito etc. - Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex
and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the
sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they
puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites,
when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and
swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are
aquatic.
- Blood-sucking insect - Bloodsucker makes mare soar like Pegasus - Bloodsucking fly - Gadfly - Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings
horses, and sucks their blood. - The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).