Meanings
nounblood tick (plural blood ticks)
plural blood ticks
- 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
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