deer tick
English
Noun
deer tick (plural deer ticks)
- A hard-bodied tick, Ixodes scapularis, of the eastern and northern Midwestern United States, one of four species of tick that is carrier of Lyme disease.
Synonyms
- (Ixodes scapularis): black-legged tick
Coordinate terms
- (carriers of Lyme disease): sheep tick, castor bean tick, Ixodes ricinus (western Eurasia); taiga tick, Ixodes persulcatus (China); western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus (western North America)
Translations
hard-bodied tick
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See also
- Appendix:List of sequence animal genomes/October 2014
Further reading
Lyme disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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