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    BLACK-LEGGED TICK

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    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)play

    Synonyms:

    black-legged tick; Ixodes scapularis

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    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("black-legged tick" is a kind of...):

    hard tick; ixodid (ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head)

    Holonyms ("black-legged tick" is a member of...):

    genus Ixodes; Ixodes (type genus of the family Ixodidae)

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