Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun black-legged_tick

1 sense of black-legged tick

Sense 1
Ixodes scapularis, black-legged tick -- (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))
       => hard tick, ixodid -- (ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head)