Insect and Tick

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Insect noun - A person of no importance or influence.

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Tick and insect are semantically related in bug topic. In some cases you can use "Tick" instead a noun "Insect".

Tick noun - A metallic tapping sound.

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Insect and tick are semantically related in bug topic. Sometimes you can use "Insect" instead a noun "Tick".

Nearby Words: ticked, ticking

Depending on whether or not Marvel retained the rights to Bug when they lost the Micronauts, the insect alien with Bug's verbal tick appearing in Guardians of Knowwhere may be a case of this.

Source: Comic Book / Secret Wars (2015)
He pulls a tick/louse/some bloodsucking insect from his pubic hair and puts to her skin so that it feeds.

Source: Indirect Kiss
Insect-eating birds nest in the groove between the ridges, giving their young a free ride along with the antelope herds, while the antelope gets a reliable tick-removal service and is warned of predators by the birds' alarm-calls.

Source: Literature / After Man: A Zoology of the Future

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