black-legged tick

1. 1.

   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)

   SynonymsIxodes scapularis

   Broaderhard tick

   Part ofIxodes

Questions about black-legged tick

What does black-legged tick mean?

black-legged tick means "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)".

What is another word for black-legged tick?

Close synonyms include Ixodes scapularis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black-legged tick a common word?

black-legged tick is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.