entozoon
Example Sentences
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It is a semi-transparent entozoon; each segment is long compared to its breadth, and narrowed at both ends.
From Dogs and All about Them by Leighton, Robert
When you know the entozoon you can dig him out and save the sheep's life.
From Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Brisbane, Arthur
The entozoon of course gives rise to a variety of stale and melancholy jokes about the early bird, the worm that dieth not, and so forth.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
An "entozoon" seems to the practical man a foolish, imaginary creature.
From Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Brisbane, Arthur
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