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black-legged tick
black-legged tick B5307750 (blăk′lĕgd′)n. See deer tick.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | black-legged 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)Ixodes scapularishard 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 |
black-legged tick
black-legged tick (blăk′lĕgd′)n. See deer tick.black-legged tick
Related to black-legged tick: American dog tick, lone star tickSynonyms for black-legged ticknoun parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humansSynonymsRelated Words- hard tick
- ixodid
- genus Ixodes
- Ixodes
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