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epizoic

[ ep-uh-zoh-ik ]

adjective

, Biology.
  1. externally parasitic.


epizoic

/ ˌɛpɪˈzəʊɪk /

adjective

  1. (of an animal or plant) growing or living on the exterior of a living animal
  2. (of plants) having seeds or fruit dispersed by animals
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


epizoic

/ ĕp′ĭ-zōĭk /

  1. Living or growing on the external surface of an animal.


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Derived Forms

  • ˌepiˈzoism, noun
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Other Words From

  • epi·zoism noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of epizoic1

First recorded in 1855–60; epizo(on) + -ic
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Example Sentences

Like many epizoic or parasitic insects, Hemimerus is wingless, eyeless and has relatively short and strong legs.

The passage is in "The Poet at the Breakfast Table": Our epizoic literature is becoming so extensive that nobody is safe from its ad infinitum progeny.

As the summer wanes their dead bodies are frequently found in the footpaths; for a kind of epizoic seems to seize them at that time, and they die in numbers.

The only epizoic species, according to M. Fries, is Agaricus cerussatus v. nauseosus, which has been met with in Russia on the carcase of a wolf; this, however, might have been accidental.

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