ADJECTIVE
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living or growing on the exterior surface of an animal usually as a parasite
an epizoic plant parasite
How To Use epizoic In A Sentence
- Epizoic barnacles are sessile, marine crustaceans and constitute a model system featuring the above conditions.
- Our epizoic literature is becoming so extensive that nobody is safe from its ad infinitum progeny. The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
- Unionoidae shells provide a suitable substrate for epiphytic and epizoic colonization, and help stabilize fine-grained sediments that other organisms use for habitat. Freshwater mussels in North America - factors affecting their endangerment and extinction
- an epizoic plant parasite
