Crossword-Solution: CARRAPATO
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| SOUTH American tick | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
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greedy person
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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.