BLACK-LEGGED TICK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick)

Synonyms:

black-legged tick; Ixodes scapularis

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("black-legged tick" is a kind of...):

hard tick; ixodid (ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head)

Holonyms ("black-legged tick" is a member of...):

genus Ixodes; Ixodes (type genus of the family Ixodidae)

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