亚洲网紅露点

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epizoic

[ ep-uh-zoh-ik ]

adjective

Biology.
  1. externally parasitic.


epizoic

/ 藢蓻辫瑟藞锄蓹蕣瑟办 /

adjective

  1. (of an animal or plant) growing or living on the exterior of a living animal
  2. (of plants) having seeds or fruit dispersed by animals
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

epizoic

  1. Living or growing on the external surface of an animal.
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Derived Forms

  • 藢别辫颈藞锄辞颈蝉尘, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 别辫顎卛路锄辞顎僫蝉尘 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of epizoic1

First recorded in 1855鈥60; epizo(on) + -ic
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Example Sentences

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Like many epizoic or parasitic insects, Hemimerus is wingless, eyeless and has relatively short and strong legs.

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The passage is in "The Poet at the Breakfast Table": Our epizoic literature is becoming so extensive that nobody is safe from its ad infinitum progeny.

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As the summer wanes their dead bodies are frequently found in the footpaths; for a kind of epizoic seems to seize them at that time, and they die in numbers.

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The only epizoic species, according to M. Fries, is Agaricus cerussatus v. nauseosus, which has been met with in Russia on the carcase of a wolf; this, however, might have been accidental.

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