tampan tick
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Tampan — Tam pan, n. (Zo[ o]l.) A venomous South African tick. Livingstone. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
tick — An acarine of the families Ixodidae (hard ticks) or Argasidae (soft ticks), which contain many bloodsucking species that are important pests of humans and domestic birds and mammals, and that probably exceed all other arthropods in the number and … Medical dictionary
tampan — noun a) A type of cloth from Indonesia. b) A type of tick from southern Africa … Wiktionary
tampan — tam·pan tam .pan n any of various ticks of the family Argasidae esp FOWL TICK * * * tam·pan (tamґpan) 1. Argas persicus. 2. Ornithodoros moubata … Medical dictionary
tampan — n. venomous S African tick … Dictionary of difficult words
tampan — I. ˈtamˌpan noun ( s) Etymology: native name in southern Africa : any of various argasid ticks; especially : chicken tick II. ˈtampən, aam , aim noun ( … Useful english dictionary
Argas persicus — the tampan tick, one of the most important blood sucking parasites of poultry, which produces a weakened condition of flocks, with great economic losses. In numerous tropical and subtropical countries it acts as the carrier of fowl spirochetosis … Medical dictionary
Ornithodoros — Ornithodoros … Wikipédia en Français
