(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:53:33

Ar"gas (#), n.

A genus of venomous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje.

 

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