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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. any external parasitic organism (as fleas);
[syn: ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ectoparasite \Ec`to*par"a*site\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite. -- Ec`to*par`a*sit"ic, a. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ectoparasite n 1: any external parasitic organism (as fleas) [syn: ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon]