#tick  any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
  supertype:  acarine  mite or tick
  subtype:  hard_tick  soft_tick
  member of:  order_Acarina__Acarina  mites and ticks
     member of:  class_Arachnida__Arachnida  a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings
        member of:  superclass_Chelicerata__Chelicerata  spiders; scorpions; horseshoe crabs
           member of:  phylum_Arthropoda__Arthropoda  jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
              member of:  kingdom_Animalia__Animalia__animal_kingdom  taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals

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