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soft tick
noun
any of numerous ticks of the family Argasidae, lacking a dorsal shield and having the mouthparts on the underside of the head.
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You might hear the soft tick, tick, tick of your interest rate going up.
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The species, Carios kelleyi, is known as a “soft tick” given its soft, leathery body, as opposed to “hard ticks” such as deer ticks, which can carry Lyme disease, per a university news release.
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That virus could then travel via soft tick to domesticated hogs.
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That virus then could travel via soft tick to domesticated hogs.
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You might hear the soft tick, tick, tick of your interest rate going up.
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