The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβδέλλα“leech”
- English todaybdelloid rotifer
From bdelloid (“leech-like”), from Ancient Greek βδέλλα (bdélla, “leech”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekβδέλλα all →
bdellinbdelloidbdellometer
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.