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Meanings of entozoon in English

Any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms)

        Usage of entozoon in English
        1
        When you know the entozoon you can dig him out and save the sheep's life.
        Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
        2
        An "entozoon" seems to the practical man a foolish, imaginary creature.
        Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
        3
        It is a semi-transparent entozoon; each segment is long compared to its breadth, and narrowed at both ends.
        Dogs and All about Them
        4
        Then it was on the radiates, echinoderms, acalephes, polypes, entozoons, sponges, and infusoria, that he had for such a long time burned the midnight oil?
        Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
        Entozoon through the time