Argasidae

noun plural

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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