Usually means: Parasite living on organism's exterior.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word ectoparasite:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. ectoparasite: Merriam-Webster
  2. ectoparasite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ectoparasite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ectoparasite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ectoparasite: Vocabulary.com
  6. ectoparasite: Wordnik
  7. ectoparasite: Wiktionary
  8. ectoparasite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ectoparasite: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. ectoparasite: Dictionary.com
  11. Ectoparasite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Ectoparasite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. ectoparasite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. ectoparasite: Rhymezone
  15. Ectoparasite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. ectoparasite: FreeDictionary.org
  17. ectoparasite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. ectoparasite: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ectoparasite: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. ectoparasite: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ectoparasite: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Ectoparasite: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. ectoparasite: Medical dictionary
  7. Ectoparasite: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ectoparasite)

noun:  A parasite that lives on the surface of a host organism; such as the Demodex mite, which lives in human hair and eyelashes.

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