HyperDic: ixodes_persulcatus

English > 1 sense of the expression Ixodes persulcatus:
NOUNanimalIxodes persulcatusbites humans
English > Ixodes persulcatus: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningbites humans; a vector for Lyme disease spirochete.
Member ofIxodes, genus Ixodestype genus of the family Ixodidae
Broaderhard tick, ixodidticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head

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