Ixodes pacificus

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Ixodes pacificus - a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern Californiawestern black-legged tickhard tick, ixodid - ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the headgenus Ixodes, Ixodes - type genus of the family Ixodidae