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bont tick Also 9 bonte tick. [Afrikaans, f. Du. bont variegated + tick n.1] A South African tick, Amblyomma hebræum, parasitic on cattle, ostriches, and man.
1881Douglass Ostrich Farming 17 The large Bonte tick that..produces terrible sores on all animals. 1900C. P. Lounsbury in Proc. Assoc. Econ. Ent. 41 (Cent. Dict. Suppl.), The tick of greatest importance, because of its injuries to stock, is Amblyomma hebræum Koch, commonly known as the bont tick. 1952Cape Times 20 Feb. 2/6 The dreaded ‘heartwater’ disease which was caused by the bont tick. |