Interesting - I wondered how you'd differentiate between "ticks" and "pliers" in plural and figured it'd follow the same pattern as Czech (so something like "kliešťata") but when I looked it up on Google translate it's just the same as "pliers". Is that right?

And weirdly the Czech for "pliers" isn't the same as "ticks":

    Slovak    Czech
    kliešte   kleště
    kliešť    klíště
    kliešte   klíšťata

Though having pulled a handful of klíšťata from my dog already this summer, I'd have to concede to that "pliers" is actually a very appropriate homonym.