Crossword-Solution: CARRAPATO
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEAEZM
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eruption
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Sentences with CARRAPATO (5)
When the carrapato was duly located--it is quite easy to see it, as the large body remains outside--the pin was duly pushed right through its body.
The carrapato, thus surprised, at once let go with its clinging legs, which struggled pitifully in the air.
One of the most troublesome pests of the interior is a minute degenerate spider of the genus _Ixodes_, called _carrapato_, or bush-tick, which breeds on the ground and then creeps up the grass blades and bushes where it waits for some passing man or beast.
Formerly cattle were reared to some extent in the more inland parts of the district, but this source of production has failed in consequence of the occasionally excessive drought, and also because of the abundance of a tick (_Carrapato_), which sometimes proves so great a plague that a farmer loses his whole stock in a single season.
Shortly after leaving Oeiras, we began to be much tormented by a species of tick, to which the Brazilians give the name of carrapato.