Epizoon

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  • noun. An epizoic organism.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One of the Epizoa; an epizoan.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoön. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans.
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  • noun. An external animal parasite
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  • noun. any external parasitic organism (as fleas)
  • Word Usage
    "Ann Coulter has never had an origional thought which makes her the epizoon of the neocons."
    variant
    epizoa