garapata
English
Noun
garapata (plural garapatas)
- (US) A kind of wood tick.
- 1873, United States. Navy Department, Annual Reports of the Navy Department, page 188:
- […] principally among the former were the garapatas, a vicious species of wood-tick, which swarm almost every leaf and plant growing near the ground […]
- 1890, Thomas Wallace Knox, The Boy Travellers in Mexico, page 508:
- 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.
Bikol Central
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧pa‧ta
- IPA(key): /ɡaɾaˈpata/, [ɡa.ɾaˈpa.ta]
Hiligaynon
Alternative forms
- kalapata
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧pa‧ta
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡaɾaˈpata/, [ɡɐ.ɾɐˈpa.tɐ]
- Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧pa‧ta
Derived terms
- garapatahin
Related terms
- garapito
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