garapata
garapata noun: a kind of wood tick.
Noun
garapata (plural garapatas)
- A kind of wood tick.
- […] principally among the former were the garapatas, a vicious species of wood-tick, which swarm almost every leaf and plant growing near the ground […]1873, United States. Navy Department, Annual Reports of the Navy Department, page 188
- One of the worst annoyances of their visit to Uxmal was that whenever they moved about they became covered with garapatas. The garapata is a tick so small that it is hardly perceptible to the naked eye, but it is capable of making a bite or sting like that of a red ant or a hot needle.1890, Thomas Wallace Knox, The Boy Travellers in Mexico, page 508
Forms of garapata
| plural | garapatas |
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Origin of garapata
Borrowed from Spanish garrapata.
Questions about garapata
- What does garapata mean?
- Garapata means a kind of wood tick.
- What part of speech is garapata?
- Garapata is a noun.
- What is the plural of garapata?
- The plural of garapata is garapatas.
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