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Siphonostomata :: Siphonostomata (n. pl.) A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. They have a mouth adapted to suck blood..

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

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..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A parasite.

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

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

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

Water Mite :: Water mite () Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachna and allied genera of the family Hydrachnidae, usually having the legs fringed and adapted for swimming. They are often red or red and black in color, and while young are parasites of fresh-water insects and mussels. Called also water tick, and water spider..

Entophyte :: Entophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.

Tachina :: Tachina (n.) Any one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to Tachina and allied genera. Their larvae are external parasites of other insects.

Parasite :: Parasite (n.) A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia..

Toadeater :: Toadeater (n.) A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer; a toady..

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

Sycophant :: Sycophant (n.) A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men..

Rhizocephala :: Rhizocephala (n. pl.) A division of Pectostraca including saclike parasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See Illusration in Appendix.

Ringworm :: Ringworm (n.) A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton)..

Parasita :: Parasita (n. pl.) A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata..

Suppawn :: Supparasite (v. t.) To flatter; to cajole; to act the parasite.

Endoparasite :: Endoparasite (n.) Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoon..

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