bont tick, noun phrase

/ˈbɔn tɪk//ˈbɒn tɪk/
Forms:
Also bonte tick, and with initial capital.
Origin:
Afrikaans, EnglishShow more Afrikaans bont parti-coloured + English tick.
Any of several species of tick of the genus Amblyomma of the Ixodidae, especially A. hebraeum, characterized by a patterned shield; heartwater tick, see heartwater sense 2. Cf. bont-legged tick.
Note:
Bont ticks transmit heartwater in cattle, sheep and goats, and tick-bite fever in humans.
c1881 A. Douglass Ostrich Farming 17The large Bonte tick..produces terrible sores on all animals.
1900 C.P. Lounsbury in Cent. Dict. Suppl. (1909) 41The tick of greatest importance, because of its injuries to stock, is Amblyomma hebraeum Koch, commonly known as the bont tick.
1911 Farmer’s Weekly 22 Mar. 22Whilst at Graaff-Reinet Show, he picked four ticks off one of the prize animals. One of them was the well-known bont tick, which carries heart-water and East Coast fever.
1955 J.B. Shephard Land of Tikoloshe 144They do not connect the bont-tick, the red-legged tick, and all the other parasites which dipping helps to destroy, with East Coast fever and Red Water.
1974 B. Smit in Std Encycl. of Sn Afr. X. 500Bont Tick, (Amblyomma hebraeum.) This variegated tick is..easy to identify because of the conspicuous markings on its shield...The legs are banded as in the bont-leg tick.
1977 E. Prov. Herald 30 Feb. 10Recent research at Rhodes had shown that certain chemicals secreted by fed male bont ticks effectively attracted unfed males and females and nymphs but not larvae.
1991 J.B. Walker in Onderstepoort Jrnl of Vet. Research Vol.58 No.2, 82Genus Amblyomma Koch, 1844..is distributed world-wide. The majority of these bont ticks..are..large, colourful species.
Any of several species of tick of the genus Amblyomma of the Ixodidae, especially A. hebraeum, characterized by a patterned shield; heartwater tick, see heartwater sense 2.
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