| 释义 |
epizoic, a. and n.|ɛpɪˈzəʊɪk|
[f. epizo-on (or its elements) + -ic.]
A. adj.
a. Of or pertaining to epizoa.
b. Of plants: Living upon animals.
1857Berkeley Cryptog. Bot. 235 Fungi were defined as hysterophytal or epiphytal mycetals, (more rarely epizoic or inhabitants of inorganic substances). 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. An. vi. 276 The parasite so common on the Stickleback,..one of the most curious modifications of the epizoic type.
transf.1872O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakf.-t. vi. 179 Our epizoic literature is becoming so extensive that, etc.
B. n. An epizootic disease; = epizootic B.
1879Jefferies Wild Life in S. Co. 186 A kind of epizoic seems to seize them [little mice], and they die in numbers. |