deer tick

deer tick
noun
a northeastern tick now recognized as same species as Ixodes scapularis
Syn: ↑Ixodes dammini
Hypernyms: ↑hard tick, ↑ixodid
Member Holonyms: ↑Ixodes, ↑genus Ixodes

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noun
: a tick of the genus Ixodes (I. dammini) that parasitizes mammals including humans and that is a vector of the bacterium causing Lyme disease

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noun, pl ⋯ ticks [count]
US : a very small insect found in the eastern U.S. and in Canada that usually feeds on deer and that can give the person or animal it bites various diseases (such as Lyme disease)

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