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Definition of Endoparasite
1. Noun. Any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms).
Generic synonyms: Parasite
Derivative terms: Endoparasitic, Endozoan, Entozoan, Entozoan, Entozoan, Entozoan
Definition of Endoparasite
1. n. Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoön.
Definition of Endoparasite
1. Noun. A parasite that lives inside the body of an organism, such as a tapeworm. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Endoparasite
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Endoparasite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Endoparasite
Literary usage of Endoparasite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"A closely allied, if not identical type has been observed by both Stein and
Claparede and Lachmann, as an endoparasite of ..."
2. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"... ie if the whole false mantle with its aperture becomes enclosed in the body
cavity of the host, we have a form corresponding with the endoparasite ..."
3. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1880)
"endoparasite of myriapod, lulus mar- ... endoparasite of the Earthworm, Lum-
bric-ws terrestri*, x 100. 8. 13—17. ..."
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