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ENTOZOON
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Irregular inflected form: entozoa
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms)
Synonyms:
endoparasite; endozoan; entoparasite; entozoan; entozoon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("entozoon" is a kind of...):
parasite (an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host)
Derivation:
entozoan (living within a living animal usually as a parasite)
entozoan (of or relating to entozoa)
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