kangaroo tick
noun1
A tick of species Amblyomma triguttatum, that primarily parasites on kangaroos and other macropods.
- ‘We must have sat down on a kangaroo camp when we boiled the billy at midday,’ I remarked irritably. Laurie laughed while I burned three kangaroo ticks from my legs.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 82:
2
The tick Haemaphysalis bancrofti, that similarly parasites macropods.