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Amblyomma

Amblyomma

9.9
A tick with a hard shell that bites animals and people and can spread disease
  • proper noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : Amblyomma
  • Research indicates that Amblyomma ovale often infests wildlife, posing risks to animal health.
  • Amblyomma americanum
  • Lone Amblyomma tick
  • Star Amblyomma tick

Examples

  • Amblyomma americanum is known as the Lone Star tick, which can transmit diseases to humans.

  • Another study, 200 miles north of the first, revealed clumping of adult Amblyomma americana, or lone star ticks (LSTs) (3).

    Academic text (1997)

  • Earlier studies with the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, demonstrated that the tick is not evenly distributed in nature, but "clumps" or "clusters" instead (2, 3).

    Academic text (1998)

  • The Amblyomma genus includes several tick species that are vectors for various diseases in both animals and humans.

Synonyms

Ixodes
vsAmblyomma
  • Specialized
9.9

A group of hard ticks that can spread disease to people and animals

is presented as a widely distributed hard tick genus rather than by family name
Dermacentor
vsAmblyomma
  • Specialized
9.9

A kind of tick that bites people and animals and spreads disease

is described as a hard tick genus found worldwide with some disease vectors

Surface Forms

Amblyomma main

Etymology

Amblyomma comes from Greek parts ambly- ('blunt') and -omma ('eye'). A helpful image is a tick with a rounded or dull-looking head or eye area, and so Amblyomma became the name for this group of hard ticks that live on animals and can sometimes carry disease.