Entozoa

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  • n. Plural form of entozoon.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun-plural. A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.
  • noun-plural. An artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In zoology: In Cuvier's system, the second class of Radiata, containing the intestinal worms, divided into two orders, Nematoidea and Parenchymata.
  • Now, a general name, of no classificatory significance, of internal parasites, such as intestinal worms: opposed to Ectozoa, the ectoparasites.
  • A genus of arachnids.
  • [lowercase] Plural of entozoön.
  • Word Usage
    "Undoubtedly the fever is not so severe at Basile as in the lowlands, but there are here the usual drawbacks to West African high land, namely an over supply of rain, and equally saturating mists, to say nothing of sudden and extreme alternations of temperature, and so the colonists still fall off, and their children die continuously from the various entozoa which abound upon the island."