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HARD TICK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head
Synonyms:
hard tick; ixodid
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hard tick" is a kind of...):
tick (any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hard tick"):
deer tick; Ixodes dammini (a northeastern tick now recognized as same species as Ixodes scapularis)
Ixodes neotomae (a tick that usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to dusky-footed wood rats)
Ixodes pacificus; western black-legged tick (a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California)
black-legged tick; Ixodes scapularis (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 ricinus; sheep-tick; sheep tick (parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete)
Ixodes persulcatus (bites humans; a vector for Lyme disease spirochete)
Ixodes dentatus; Ixodes spinipalpis (usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats)
American dog tick; Dermacentor variabilis; wood tick (common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia)
Holonyms ("hard tick" is a member of...):
family Ixodidae; Ixodidae (hard ticks)
