Argasidae
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Ar·gas·i·dae | \ är-ˈgas-ə-ˌdē 
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\Medical Definition of Argasidae
: a family of ticks of the superfamily Ixodoidea that comprises the soft ticks and includes a number of medically and economically important ticks all of which lack a scutum and exhibit no marked sexual dimorphism — see argas, ornithodoros
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argasid \ -əd \ adjective
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