HyperDic English BLACK- ... black-legged tick

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English 1 sense of the expression *black-legged tick*:
NOUN	animal	black-legged tick, Ixodes scapularis	parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans

Englishblack-legged tick: 1 sense noun 1, animal
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).
Synonym	Ixodes scapularis
Member of	Ixodes, genus Ixodes	type genus of the family Ixodidae
Broader	hard tick, ixodid	ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head

HyperDicEnglishBLACK- ... black-legged tick