| NOUN | animal | hard tick, ixodid | ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head |
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| Meaning | ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head. | |
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| Synonym | ixodid | |
| Member of | Ixodidae, family Ixodidae | hard ticks |
| Narrower | Ixodes dammini, deer tick | A northeastern tick now recognized as same species as Ixodes scapularis |
| Ixodes dentatus | usually does not bite humans | |
| Ixodes neotomae | A tick that usually does not bite humans | |
| Ixodes pacificus, western black-legged tick | A tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans | |
| Ixodes persulcatus | bites humans | |
| Ixodes scapularis, black-legged tick | Parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans | |
| Ixodes spinipalpis | usually does not bite humans | |
| sheep-tick, sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus | Parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans | |
| wood tick, American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis | Common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia | |
| Broader | tick | Any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis |
| Spanish | ixóda, ixodid | |
| Catalan | ixòdid | |
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