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.