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    ENTOZOON

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: entozoa  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms)play

    Synonyms:

    endoparasite; endozoan; entoparasite; entozoan; entozoon

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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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