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Tick bean
Tick Tick, n. [OE. tike, teke; akin to D. teek, G. zecke. Cf. Tike a tick.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs. (b) Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep). Tick bean, a small bean used for feeding horses and other animals. Tick trefoil (Bot.), a name given to many plants of the leguminous genus Desmodium, which have trifoliate leaves, and joined pods roughened with minute hooked hairs by which the joints adhere to clothing and to the fleece of sheep.

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- seeds that are fed to horses or other animals are called field bean, tic bean or tick bean. This legume is common in European, east Asian, Latin American...
- Ixodes ricinus, the castor bean tick, is a chiefly European species of hard-bodied tick. It may reach a length of 11 mm (0.43 in) when engorged with a...
- Ticks are parasitic arachnids of the order Ixodida. They are part of the mite superorder Parasitiformes. Adult ticks are approximately 3 to 5 mm in length...
- ricinus, which is also called the sheep tick or castor bean tick. In China, Ixodes persulcatus (the taiga tick) is probably the most important vector....
- Forms of the cocoa bean during production The cocoa bean, also known as cocoa (/ˈkoʊ.koʊ/) or cacao (/kəˈkaʊ/), is the dried and fully fermented seed...
- canadense (Showy Tick-trefoil): Minnesota Wildflowers". www.minnesotawildflowers.info. Retrieved 2021-12-02. Krell, Rayda Kathryn (2002). Bean pod mottle virus...
- Ricinus communis, the castor bean or castor oil plant, is a species of perennial flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. It is the sole species...
- Technology. 112 (1): 10–30. doi:10.1002/ejlt.200900138. "The Castor Bean: A Plant Named After A Tick". Wayne's Word: An Online Textbook of Natural History. March...
- Wisker Turner Banks Mark Joy John Randolph Paul Fitzgerald Will Sherman Christina Rouner Ellie Sherman Myrrh Cauthen Mary Johnson Howard Coon Tick Bean...
- person has been bitten by the lone star tick in the United States, the European castor bean tick, the paralysis tick or Ixodes (Endopalpiger) australiensis...