black-legged tick

English Thesaurus

1. 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) (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	hard tick, ixodid,
definition	:	ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus ixodes, ixodes,
definition	:	type genus of the family Ixodidae (noun.animal)

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