Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
living or growing on the exterior surface of an animal usually as a parasite;
- Example: "an epizoic plant parasite"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Epizoic \Ep`i*zo"ic\, a. (Zo["o]l.)
Living upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; -- said
of external parasites.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
epizoic
adj 1: living or growing on the exterior surface of an animal
usually as a parasite; "an epizoic plant parasite" [ant:
endozoic, entozoan, entozoic]