Jalike: 1 definition

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Jalike (ಜಲಿಕೆ):—[noun] any of a subclass (Hirudinea) of mostly flattened, annelid, bloodsucking worms living in water or wet earth and having a well-developed sucker at each end, and one species of which (Hirudo medicinalis) has been used in medicine, esp. in former times, to bleed patients; a leech.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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