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epizoic
[ ep-uh-zoh-ik ]
adjective
Biology.
- externally parasitic.
epizoic
/ ˌɛɪˈəʊɪ /
adjective
- (of an animal or plant) growing or living on the exterior of a living animal
- (of plants) having seeds or fruit dispersed by animals
epizoic
/ ĕ′ĭ-ō′ĭ /
- Living or growing on the external surface of an animal.
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Derived Forms
- ˌ辱ˈǾ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms
- i·i noun
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Example Sentences
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Like many epizoic or parasitic insects, Hemimerus is wingless, eyeless and has relatively short and strong legs.
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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.
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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.
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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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