A tick or similar parasitic arthropod; a variant form of garapata.
Spanish variant of 'garrapata', using masculine '-o' ending instead of '-a'. Both forms refer to the same parasitic arachnid creature.
Spanish uses gendered nouns—a tick is 'la garrapata' (feminine) or 'el garapato' (masculine), but English speakers borrowed just the word without worrying about gender, showing how we pick what we want from other languages.
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