Word Meanings - ECTORGANISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An external parasitic organism.
Related words: (words related to ECTORGANISM)
- PARASITIC; PARASITICAL
Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3. Parasitic gull, Parasitic jager. See Jager. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness, n. (more info) 1. - EXTERNAL
Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral. External angles. See under Angle. (more info) 1. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external - PARASITICIDE
Anything used to destroy parasites. Quain. - EXTERNALLY
In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly. - EXTERNALITY
State of being external; exteriority; - EXTERNALIZE
To make external; to manifest by outward form. Thought externalizes itself in language. Soyce. - EXTERNALISM
That philosophy or doctrine which recognizes or deals only with externals, or objects of sense perception; positivism; phenomenalism. (more info) 1. The quality of being manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals. - EXTERNALISTIC
Pertaining to externalism North Am. Rev. - ORGANISM
An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual. Note: Some of the lower forms of life are - MICROORGANISM; MICRO-ORGANISM
Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases. - ENTORGANISM
An internal parasitic organism. - ECTORGANISM
An external parasitic organism. - PROTOORGANISM; PROTOOERGANISM
An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.