Defenition of the word black-legged tick

• Defenition of the word black-legged tick

  • parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus (especially P. leucopus) 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)
  • 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)

Synonyms for the word black-legged tick

• • Ixodes scapularis

Meronymys for the word black-legged tick

• • genus Ixodes
  • Ixodes

Hypernyms for the word black-legged tick

• • hard tick
  • ixodid

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