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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Epizoon \Ep`i*zo"["o]n\, n.; pl {Epizoa}. [NL., fr Gr 'epi` upon + ? animal.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozo["o]n. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: epizoa n : any external parasitic organism (as fleas) [syn: {ectoparasite}, {ectozoon}, {ectozoa}, {epizoon}]
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