English dictionary
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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 | ||
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