ectozoan

Other forms of ectozoan

plural

ectozoa

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ectozoan

What does ectozoan mean?

ectozoan means "any external parasitic organism (as fleas)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ectozoan?

ectozoan has 4 syllables: ec-to-zo-an. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for ectozoan?

Close synonyms include ectoparasite, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon, epizoan. 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 ectozoan a common word?

ectozoan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.