Crossword-Solution: ARGAS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Argas | n. | A genus of venomous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ARGAS | anagram | AGARS, AGRAS, RAGAS, SAGAR, SARGA |
We have 3 clues for the answer “ARGAS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Destructive fowl tick. | 1 answer |
| Genus of poultry tick. | 1 answer |
| Miana-bug. | 1 answer |
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Sentences with ARGAS (5)
Nuttall (1908) was unable to determine the cause of the toxic effect, for, in _Argas persicus_, the species most often implicated, he failed to get the slightest local or general effect on experimental animals, from the injection of an emulsion prepared by crushing three of the ticks.
According to Nuttall it is specifically identical with _Argas americanus_ Packard or _Argas miniatus_ Koch, which is commonly found on fowls in the United States, in the South and Southwest.
When the spirochætes are ingested by _Argas persicus_, some of them pass through the gut wall into the cœlomic fluid.
There was Antigenides Delighting all with his soft flute, Argas sung, and from Acharnæ Cephisodotus struck the lyre, Celebrating Lacedæmon And the wide land of the Heraclidæ, And at other times they sung Of the seven-gated Thebes, Changing thus their strain and theme.
The European marginated tick, _Argas reflexus_ (length of male 4 mm., breadth 3 mm., length of female 6 to 8 mm., breadth 4 mm.), is of a yellowish colour and has yellowish-white legs.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1942–1946).