Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Outer; external: ectoparasite.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A prefix in words (chiefly biological) of Greek origin, signifying ‘outside, without, outer, external, lying upon’: as, ectoderm, the outer skin; Ectozoa, external parasites: opposed to endo-, ento-.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- See ect-.
Etymologies
- From the Ancient Greek ἐκτός (ektos, "outside"). (Wiktionary)
- Late Greek ekto-, from ektos, outside, from ek, ek-, out; see eghs in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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