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Definitions of epizoon in various dictionaries:
noun - any external parasitic organism (as fleas)
noun - an epizoic parasite
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Jul 3 2001 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
Jul 3 2001 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
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An epizoic organism. |
any external parasitic organism (as fleas) |
An animal that lives on the body of another animal, especially as a parasite. |
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In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has characterised parasites as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one". Parasites include protozoans such as the agents of malaria, sleeping sickness, and amoebic dysentery; animals such as hookworms, lice, mosquitoes, and vampire bats; fungi such as honey fungus and the agents of ringworm; and plants such as mistletoe, dodder, and the broomrapes. There are six major parasitic strategies of exploitation of animal hosts, namely parasitic castration, directly transmitted parasitism (by contact), trophically transmitted parasitism (by being eaten), vector-transmitted parasitism, parasitoidism, and micropredation. * Like predation, parasitism is a type of consumer-resource interaction, but unlike predators, parasites, with the exceptio |