Definition of Ectoparasite

1. Noun. Any external parasitic organism (as fleas).

Exact synonyms: Ectozoan, Ectozoon, Epizoan, Epizoon
Generic synonyms: Parasite
Specialized synonyms: Flea
Derivative terms: Ectozoan, Epizoan

Definition of Ectoparasite

1. n. Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite.

Definition of Ectoparasite

1. Noun. A parasite that lives on the surface of a host organism; such as the demodex mite which lives in human hair and eyelashes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ectoparasite

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Ectoparasite

1. A parasite that lives on the outside of its host rather than within the host's body. Fleas and lice are examples. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ectoparasite

ectomeric
ectomesenchyme
ectomies
ectomorph
ectomorphic
ectomorphs
ectomorphy
ectomy
ectomycorrhiza
ectomycorrhizae
ectomycorrhizal
ectonucleotide
ectonucleotide pyrophosphohydrolase
ectopagus
ectoparasite (current term)
ectoparasites
ectoparasitic
ectoparasitic infestations
ectoparasiticide
ectoparasiticides
ectoparasitism
ectoperitonitis
ectophloic
ectophyte
ectophytes
ectopia cloacae
ectopia cordis

Literary usage of Ectoparasite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1880)
"ectoparasite of young Trout. 1, adult animalcule x 100; 2—5, ... Ehr. ectoparasite of the fresh-water Polype, Hydra vulgari». 13-15, diverse contours ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1880)
"... the ectoparasite of Hydra, which has been so admirably described by James-Clark (Mem. Host. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. i, No. I), but it is possible that the ..."

3. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"... and M. Blanchard has never (like M. Girod) found them to vary in form with the chromatophore.—On a flagellate Infusoria, ectoparasite of fishes, ..."

4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1896)
"... n, larvae boring their way into a root; b, larva of the immobile kind surrounded by the old akin, living as an ectoparasite on the outside of the root. ..."

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