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Epozoic :: Epozoic (a.) Living upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; -- said of external parasites.

Ectoparasite :: Ectoparasite (n.) Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite.

Haematozoon :: Haematozoon (n.) A parasite inhabiting the bloo.

Parasite :: Parasite (n.) A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte..

Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above..

Epiphyte :: Epiphyte (n.) A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body.

Parasite :: Parasite (n.) An animal which lives during the whole or part of its existence on or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc..

Mesozoa :: Mesozoa (n. pl.) A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata. They are found in cephalopods. See Dicyemata..

Trematodea :: Trematodea (n. pl.) An extensive order of parasitic worms. They are found in the internal cavities of animals belonging to all classes. Many species are found, also, on the gills and skin of fishes. A few species are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually have a flattened body covered with a chitinous skin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodi

Parasite :: Parasite (n.) One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant..

Echinococcus :: Echinococcus (n.) A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog..

Glochidium :: Glochidium (n.) The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills..

Encystment :: Encystment (n.) A process by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See Trichina..

Tristoma :: Tristoma (n.) Any one of numerous species of trematode worms belonging to Tristoma and allied genera having a large posterior sucker and two small anterior ones. They usually have broad, thin, and disklike bodies, and are parasite on the gills and skin of fishes..

Nidus :: Nidus (n.) A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed..

Lick-spittle :: Lick-spittle (n.) An abject flatterer or parasite.

Pupipara :: Pupipara (n. pl.) A division of Diptera in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera..

Parasitical :: Parasitical (a.) Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic.

Parasiticide :: Parasiticide (n.) Anything used to destroy parasites.

Parasite :: Parasite (n.) An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo..

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