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Cockroachs vs Leech - What's the difference?

cockroachs | leech |


As a noun leech is

an aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class hirudinea, especially or leech can be (archaic) a physician or leech can be (nautical) the vertical edge of a square sail.

As a verb leech is

to apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.