Usually means: Substances or organisms that extract nutrients.
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  1. leaches: Merriam-Webster
  2. leaches: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. leaches: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  1. leaches: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (leach)

noun:  A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
noun:  A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
noun:  A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
verb:  (transitive) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
verb:  (intransitive) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
verb:  (figurative, intransitive) To bleed; to seep.
noun:  A surname from Old English.
noun:  A census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.
noun:  The River Leach, a river in Gloucestershire, with a short stretch in Oxfordshire, England, which joins the Thames at Lechlade.
noun:  (nautical) Alternative spelling of leech. [An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.]
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