Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology: In Cuvier's system, the second class of Radiata, containing the intestinal worms, divided into two orders, Nematoidea and Parenchymata.
- Now, a general name, of no classificatory significance, of internal parasites, such as intestinal worms: opposed to Ectozoa, the ectoparasites.
- A genus of arachnids.
- [lowercase] Plural of
entozoön .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.
- noun plural An artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
entozoon .
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Examples
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Some say it is because the natives who get their living by hammock-carrying poison them, others say the tsetse fly finishes them off; and others, and these I believe are right, say that entozoa are the cause.
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Undoubtedly the fever is not so severe at Basile as in the lowlands, but there are here the usual drawbacks to West African high land, namely an over supply of rain, and equally saturating mists, to say nothing of sudden and extreme alternations of temperature, and so the colonists still fall off, and their children die continuously from the various entozoa which abound upon the island.
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But millions of sheep have been saved by the discovery that one of these fancy scientific entozoa, pressing on the brain, caused the sheep's death.
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Some say it is because the natives who get their living by hammock - carrying poison them, others say the tsetse fly finishes them off; and others, and these I believe are right, say that entozoa are the cause.
Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881
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West African high land, namely an over supply of rain, and equally saturating mists, to say nothing of sudden and extreme alternations of temperature, and so the colonists still fall off, and their children die continuously from the various entozoa which abound upon the island.
Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881
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Polyps, sponges, and cystic entozoa, may also be included among hermaphrodites.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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In other classes, as _entozoa_, there appear to be special provisions whereby the sperm-cells and germ-cells may be united; _i. e._, the male organs are developed and so disposed as to fecundate the ova of the same individual.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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Almost every animal is a living poor-house, and harbors one or more species of _epizoa_ or _entozoa_, supplying them gratis, not only with a permanent home, but with all the necessaries and luxuries of life.
Natural Law in the Spiritual World Henry Drummond 1874
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Even more remarkable is the case of certain entozoa.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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Then it was alleged that the entozoa, the worms found in the bodies of animals, were self-produced, without eggs, until the microscope discovered that one could lay 60,000 eggs.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857
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