Definition of "leechlike" [leechlike]

• Resembling a leech or some aspect of one; clinging, parasitic. (adjective)

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• "Instead, I felt an enormous pressure as, by means of its rubbery lips, it affixed itself with leechlike determination, and then there was the slap of its body against my chest, for it had pulled free from my hand."
• "à ‚  While poaching in the Florida Everglades, Lem Sawyer [George Cisar] fires five shots into a giant leechlike creature, but none of the old boys lolling around in Dave Walkerâ⠂ ¬â „ ¢s [Bruno VeSota] General Store will buy that it was anything other than one too many swigs on Lemâ⠂ ¬â „ ¢s jug of moonshine."
• "The main Martian life-forms-the "roving stones" browsing on the mineral deserts, the leechlike predators that hunted them in the desperate battle for existence, the yet fiercer parasites that preyed on them-showed only the dimmest flickers of intelligence."