garapata
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish garrapata.
Noun
editgarapata (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
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish garrapata.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgarapata
Hiligaynon
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish garrapata.
Pronunciation
edit- Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧pa‧ta
Noun
editgarapata
Sambali
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish garrapata.
Pronunciation
edit- Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧pa‧ta
Noun
editgarapata
Tagalog
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish garrapata.
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ɡaɾaˈpata/ [ɡɐ.ɾɐˈpaː.t̪ɐ]
- Rhymes: -ata
- Syllabification: ga‧ra‧pa‧ta
Noun
editgarapata (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜇᜉᜆ)
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- tl:Mites and ticks