English noun: black-legged tick | |||
1. | black-legged tick (animal) 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 | Ixodes scapularis | ||
Broader (hypernym) | hard tick, ixodid | ||
Member meronym | genus Ixodes, Ixodes | ||