Associations to the word «Ectoparasite»

Wiktionary

ECTOPARASITE, noun. A parasite that lives on the surface of a host organism; such as the demodex mite which lives in human hair and eyelashes.

Dictionary definition

ECTOPARASITE, noun. Any external parasitic organism (as fleas).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope