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Definition of Ectoparasite
1. Noun. Any external parasitic organism (as fleas).
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
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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