ectoparasite

Questions about ectoparasite

What does ectoparasite mean?

ectoparasite means "any external parasitic organism (as fleas)".

How many syllables are in ectoparasite?

ectoparasite has 5 syllables and divides as ec-to-pa-ra-site under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ectoparasite?

Close synonyms include ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ectoparasite a common word?

ectoparasite is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.