Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ectoparasite

1 sense of ectoparasite

Sense 1
ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon -- (any external parasitic organism (as fleas))
       => parasite -- (an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host)