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blood ticks

blood ticks is the plural of blood tick.

Meaning of blood tick

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

Questions about blood ticks

What is blood ticks the plural of?
Blood ticks is the plural of blood tick.

Words near blood ticks in the dictionary

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  10. blood tree
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