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Ectoparasite Moderate

Ectoparasite has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

any external parasitic organism (as fleas)

2

A parasite that lives on the surface of a host organism; such as the Demodex mite, which lives in human hair and eyelashes.

See Also
ectoparasiticidal endoparasite ectoparasitise surface monogenean ectoparasitic ectoparasitised zooparasite
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
parasite
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
flea
Rhyming Words
ite hite kite qite wite lite bite fite mite vite yite site nite dite gite rite cite elite smite quite
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