endoparasite

1. 1.

   any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms)

   Synonymsentoparasiteentozoanentozoonendozoan

   Broaderparasite

Other forms of endoparasite

plural

endoparasites·

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 endoparasite

What does endoparasite mean?

endoparasite means "any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms)".

How many syllables are in endoparasite?

endoparasite has 5 syllables: en-do-pa-ra-site. The stress falls on "pa".

What is another word for endoparasite?

Close synonyms include entoparasite, entozoan, entozoon, endozoan. 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 endoparasite a common word?

endoparasite 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.