tick
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- noun
- /tɪk/
- Specialized
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garrapata
- But it turned out she got bit by a tick and a tick, a deer tick that had Lyme disease.
- tick bite
- deer tick
- infected tick
This wasn't as simple as a tick bite or the flu.
- This wasn't as simple as a tick bite or the flu.
- Polly meaning many and ticks meaning blood sucking insects.
- It's transmitted by mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, lice and mites.
- The tick deflector actually melts all the ticks away.
- Ground feeding birds like chicken and Guinea fowl eat ticks.
- Well, researchers just found disease bearing ticks and all of the public parks in New York City.
- But it turned out she got bit by a tick and a tick, a deer tick that had Lyme disease.
- And one day, Oh my God, there's a tick in Diego because the ticks get like inside of the skin.
- As the climate changes, insects and other parasites like ticks change their habitat and spread diseases.
- Well, that's I mean, I'll tell you what, these men are on you like a tick on a dog.
Examples
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As the climate changes, insects and other parasites like ticks change their habitat and spread diseases.
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After spending time in the woods, we found a tick on our dog's fur that we needed to remove carefully.
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Transmission of the virus from tick to tick can occur while they are feeding on the same host.
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- We have a problem with ticks.
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The nymph and adult stages of the tick will feed on larger mammals, including humans.
Academic text (2011) -
The springer had picked up the tick when they had been out hunting pheasants that morning.
Fiction book (1994) -
In future studies of horses in Nicaragua, ticks will be collected for identification.
Academic text (2015) -
Pelle, check my scalp for ticks, then I'll check yours.
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We want to enlist the mice to fight ticks and tick borne disease.
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And if you get any ticks, put it in the plastic baggie... with the date and time of the bite, and I’ll get them tested.
Synonyms
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A small blood-sucking bug that bites animals and people and can carry Lyme disease
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A small animal that bites people and animals in woods and can spread disease
A small black tick that bites animals and people and can spread Lyme disease
A small tick found in eastern North America that bites people and can give them Lyme disease
A small tick in western North America that can spread Lyme disease
A tick in the western United States that bites people and spreads Lyme disease
A tick that bites people and can spread Lyme disease
A small tick in Europe that bites mammals, including humans, and can spread Lyme disease
A small hard tick in North America that spreads Lyme disease to small wild animals like rabbits and rats
A hard-bodied tick that spreads Lyme disease to animals like rabbits
A tick that rarely bites people but carries Lyme bacteria to wood rats
A group of hard ticks that can spread disease to people and animals
A group of hard ticks that can spread disease to animals and people
A group of hard-bodied ticks that feed on the blood of animals or people
A tick with a hard shield on its back and mouth parts that stick out from its head
A tick with a hard shield on its back and a mouth that sticks out from its head
A common tick in North America that can spread diseases like Rocky Mountain spotted fever
A small tick in North America that bites dogs and people and can spread serious diseases
A kind of tick that bites people and animals and spreads disease
A tick with a hard shell that bites animals and people and can spread disease
A kind of tick that lives on cows and other farm animals and sucks their blood
A small parasite that sticks to sheep and other animals and can spread disease to animals and people
A small blood-sucking animal without a hard shell on its back that bites animals and birds
A soft tick without a hard shell that feeds on the blood of birds or mammals
A type of tick with a soft body that lives on birds and mammals and feeds on their blood
A family of soft ticks that feed on birds and mammals
A group of soft ticks that live in many places worldwide and can spread disease to people and animals
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
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A small blood-sucking bug that bites animals and people and can carry Lyme disease
A small tick found in eastern North America that bites people and can give them Lyme disease
A common tick in North America that can spread diseases like Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Specialized
A tick with a hard shield on its back and mouth parts that stick out from its head
- Archaic
A disease caused by tiny germs that spreads to people from reddish-brown ticks on dogs and other animals
A game for two players who take turns marking a three by three grid to make three in a row
- Specialized
A plant with three small leaves and sticky pods that cling to clothes or animals
- UK
A small parasite that sticks to sheep and other animals and can spread disease to animals and people
- Specialized
A small blood-sucking animal without a hard shell on its back that bites animals and birds
- Specialized
A tick in the western United States that bites people and spreads Lyme disease
How Small
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word tick for the small blood-sucking creature comes from an old English word ticca meaning 'tiny parasite', and because it fastens to the skin it keeps that short name today.