Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An epizoic organism.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the Epizoa; an epizoan.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoön. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any external parasitic organism (as fleas)
Examples
“Ann Coulter has never had an origional thought which makes her the epizoon of the neocons.”
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Logolepsy
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near and dear words
epi- opi- where it is at; also connected virtually or otherwise
epitome, epiphany, episcopal, opisthobranch, opisthognathous, oblast, duopsony, opsonin, epistemolgy, epistle, epidote, epidermis and 44 more...
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