endozoic

endozoic

(ˌɛndəʊˈzəʊɪk)
adj
1. (Botany) (of a plant) living within an animal
2. (Botany) denoting seed dispersal in which the seeds are swallowed by an animal and subsequently pass out in the faeces
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Adj.1.endozoic - living within a living animal usually as a parasite; "entozoic worms"
entozoic, entozoan
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Ecology of the northern Red Sea crinoids and their epi- and endozoic fauna.
A swollen crinoid pluricolumnal from the Upper Ordovician of northern Kentucky, USA: the oldest record of an amorphous paleopathologic response in Crinoidea?
Increases in nonnative species with wind or endozoic dispersal have been noted in several areas, including seminatural vegetation in Denmark (Andersen, 1995).
Patterns and changes in the nonnative flora of Worcester County, Massachusetts
The endozoic association and its diminutive tetrasporic filaments likely represent an advantageous adaptation to low incident light, which is further reduced in quality and quantity by the hydrozoan exosarc cover.
The Boulder Patch (North Alaska, Beaufort Sea) and its benthic algal flora
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