seed tick

noun

1. the six-legged nymphal form of a tick, somewhat resembling a seed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seed tick¹

An Americanism dating back to 1695–1705

Example Sentences

Seeds′men; Seed′-sow′er, a broadcast seeding-machine; Seed′-stalk, the funiculus; Seed′-tick, a young tick; Seed′time, the time or season for sowing seed; Seed′-vess′el, the pericarp which contains the seeds; Seed′-weev′il, a small weevil which infests seeds; Seed′-wool, cotton-wool from which the seeds have not been removed.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

Back in the Dark Ages of my childhood, I knew experimentally real Java—we got it by the sack-full straight from New Orleans—and called the Rio coffee used by many of our neighbors "Seed tick coffee," imagining its flavor was like the smell of those pests.

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Flea bite hard, flea bite quick; Flea bite burn lak dat seed tick.

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It is also a splendid thing for brushing off that terrible little insect, the seed tick.

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