endoparasite

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 and divides as en-do-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 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.