Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical and largest genus of Ixodidæ, founded by Latreille in 1796, embracing eyeless species best known as ticks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of parasitic Acarina, which includes various species of ticks. See
tick , the insect.
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- noun type genus of the family Ixodidae
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Examples
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Haug 10.70 has observed a tic (ixodes ricinus) in the ear of a lad of seventeen.
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Haug has observed a tic (ixodes ricinus) in the ear of a lad of seventeen.
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(_Synonym: _ Wood-tick.) #State the character of the cutaneous disturbance produced by the ixodes.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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The ticks (_ixodes_) are a class of insects destined by nature for the suction of plants; but they often forsake trees, shrubs, and grasses, to fasten on man and other animals.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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