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What is the noun for ectoparasites?

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ectoparasitism
  1. The condition of being an ectoparasite.
  2. Infection by an ectoparasite.
ectoparasite
  1. A parasite that lives on the surface of a host organism; such as the Demodex mite, which lives in human hair and eyelashes.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The horn fly, Haematobia irritans, is probably the most important economically damaging ectoparasite of grazing cattle.”
      “It also provides the first evidence for an interspecific association between two ectoparasite species.”
      “Endrin has been used as a rodenticide and as an insecticide used on cotton, rice and corn crops, and for ectoparasite control in livestock.”
ectoparasiticide
  1. Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
ectoparasitoid
ectoparasiticides
  1. plural of ectoparasiticide
ectoparasitisms
  1. plural of ectoparasitism
ectoparasitoids
  1. plural of ectoparasitoid
ectoparasites
  1. plural of ectoparasite
  2. Examples:
    1. “These flies are also called louse flies and are ectoparasites on birds and mammals.”
      “She confirmed that endoparasites and ectoparasites also attack and reduce sheep production.”
      “The examination of 278 hosts of 16 species yielded 11,030 ectoparasites representing six families of Insecta and eleven families of Acari.”
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