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blood tick

blood tick noun: a tick of the family Ixodidae, especially one engorged with blood.

Noun

blood tick (plural blood ticks)

  1. A tick of the family Ixodidae, especially one engorged with blood.
    • "To a man of philosophic temperament like myself the blood-tick, with its lancet-like proboscis and its distending stomach, is as beautiful a work of Nature as the peacock or, for that matter, the aurora borealis."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of blood tick

pluralblood ticks

Questions about blood tick

What does blood tick mean?
Blood tick means a tick of the family Ixodidae, especially one engorged with blood.
What part of speech is blood tick?
Blood tick is a noun.
What is the plural of blood tick?
The plural of blood tick is blood ticks.

Words near blood tick in the dictionary

  1. blood tested
  2. blood testing
  3. blood tests
  4. blood thinner
  5. blood thinners
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  8. blood tofu
  9. blood transfusion
  10. blood transfusions
  11. blood tree

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