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wood-tick 
n. a kind of tick, Dermacentor andersoni, a cause of spotted fever, tick fever, or Rocky Mountain fever.
See also: Rocky Mountain fever
- 1859 (1958) I climbed mountains and got covered with wood-ticks as I ploughed through the sage-brush and greasewood. . . .
- 1942 Fitzpatrick, our eager Irish terrier, came home with a couple of woodticks in his ear.
- 1962 The wood tick, occasionally seen in the Cariboo, is often a dreaded menace on the spring ranges of the dry belt: the Kamloops, Nicola and Okanagan country.
- 1859 (1958) I climbed mountains and got covered with wood-ticks as I ploughed through the sage-brush and greasewood. . . .