DCHP-3

wood-tick

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a kind of tick, Dermacentor andersoni, a cause of spotted fever, tick fever, or Rocky Mountain fever.

Quotations

1859
I climbed mountains and got covered with wood-ticks as I ploughed through the sage-brush and greasewood. . . .
1942
Fitzpatrick, our eager Irish terrier, came home with a couple of woodticks in his ear.
1962
The wood tick, occasionally seen in the Cariboo, is often a dreaded menace on the spring ranges of the dry belt: the Kamloops, Nicola and Okanagan country.