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Definition of American dog tick
1. Noun. Common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia.
Generic synonyms: Hard Tick, Ixodid
Group relationships: Dermacentor, Genus Dermacentor
Lexicographical Neighbors of American Dog Tick
Literary usage of American dog tick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sanitary Entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"... ear* of horses and mules; and the widely distributed american dog tick which
is sometimes sufficiently abundant to greatly annoy man and other animal*. ..."
2. Preparing for Climate Change: Proceedings, Second North American Conference (1993)
"... taken was to evaluate whether future weather conditions would be more favorable
for the development of the american dog tick - the vector f6r RMSF. ..."
3. A Laboratory Guide to the Study of Parasitology by William Brodbeck Herms (1913)
"Dermacentor variabilis, american dog tick, scutum spotted with silver. Front pair
of legs emerging close to capitulum. What is the form of the guard plates ..."
4. Papers and Proceedings of the Surgeon General's Conference on Agricultural edited by Melvin L. Myers (1994)
"Biting arachnids include ticks, such as the american dog tick, the lone star
tick, the deer tick, and chiggers. ..."
5. The Journal of Economic Biology by Walter Edward Collinge, A. H. Reginald Buller, George Herbert Carpenter, Robert Newstead, Arthur Everett Shipley (1908)
"The common american dog tick. W. Indies. On the horse. Cosmopolitan in some form.
Found on all domestic animals and conveying " red-water." S. Africa. ..."
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