HyperDic: ixodes

English > 1 sense of the word Ixodes:
NOUNanimalIxodes, genus Ixodestype genus of the family Ixodidae
English > Ixodes: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningtype genus of the family Ixodidae.
Synonymgenus Ixodes
Member ofIxodidae, family Ixodidaehard ticks
MembersIxodes dammini, deer tickA northeastern tick now recognized as same species as Ixodes scapularis
Ixodes dentatususually does not bite humans
Ixodes neotomaeA tick that usually does not bite humans
Ixodes pacificus, western black-legged tickA tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans
Ixodes persulcatusbites humans
Ixodes scapularis, black-legged tickParasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans
Ixodes spinipalpisusually does not bite humans
sheep-tick, sheep tick, Ixodes ricinusParasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans
Broaderarthropod genusA genus of arthropods
Spanishgénero Ixodes, genus ixodes, ixodes, Ixodes
Catalangenus ixodes, ixodes

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