black-legged tick

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Noun black-legged tick has 1 sense

Ixodes scapularis, 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)
--₁ is a kind of hard tick, ixodid
--₁ is a member of Ixodes, genus Ixodes

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