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English noun: Ixodes scapularis

1. Ixodes scapularis (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)


Synonymsblack-legged tick


Broader (hypernym)hard tick, ixodid


Member meronymgenus Ixodes, Ixodes









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