Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various animals, such as tapeworms or trematodes, that inhabit the internal organs or tissues of other animals, usually as parasites.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Entozoa; an internal parasite; an entozoan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Entozoa.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Any of various microscopic
parasitic worms previously classified together under the grouping Entozoa.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms)
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Examples
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An "entozoon" seems to the practical man a foolish, imaginary creature.
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The entozoon of course gives rise to a variety of stale and melancholy jokes about the early bird, the worm that dieth not, and so forth.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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When you know the entozoon you can dig him out and save the sheep's life.
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The entozoon of course gives rise to a variety of stale and melancholy jokes about the early bird, the worm that dieth not, and so forth.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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a disorder known as "the staggers," of which many thousands of sheep have died annually, is caused by an entozoon which presses on the brain, and that if the creature is extracted through the softened place in the skull which marks its position, the sheep usually recovers, is another debt which agriculture owes to biology.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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