Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

garapata

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gara-p-a-ta
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

4

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of wood tick.

American usage

Example Sentences

"[…] principally among the former were the garapatas, a vicious species of wood-tick, which swarm almost every leaf and plant growing near the ground […]"
"One of the worst annoyances of their visit to Uxmal was that whenever they moved about they became covered with garapatas. The garapata is a tick so small that it is hardly perceptible to the naked eye, but it is capable of making a bite or sting like that of a red ant or a hot needle."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish garrapata.

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

garapatas (plural)

Questions

What does garapata mean?: A kind of wood tick.
Where does garapata come from?: Borrowed from Spanish garrapata.

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